Vindication of the Rights of Woman

"This edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)highlights Wollstonecraft's contributions to modern political philosophy, especially the idea of women's human rights, alongside the cultural and political contexts that inspired her important feminist arguments. It includes an introduction by Eileen Hunt Botting (the editor) and several new scholarly essays on the philosophical, literary, and political legacies of the Rights of Woman by Ruth Abbey, Eileen Hunt Botting, Norma Clarke, Madeline Cronin, and Virginia Sapiro. A biographical directory, two historical timelines, and comprehensive index complement the essays"--

Product details

• Authors: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Abbey Wollstonecraft
• Assisted by: Eileen Hunt Botting (Editor), Botting Eileen Hunt (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2014
• EAN: 9780300176476
• ISBN: 978-0-300-17647-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Rethinking the Western Tradition; Rethinking the Western Tradition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Human rights, civil rights