A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Writing just after the French and American revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft firmly established the demand for women's emancipation in the context of the ever-widening urge for human rights and individual freedom that followed in the wake of these two great upheavals. She thereby opened the richest, most productive vein in feminist thought; and her success can be judged by the fact that her once radical polemic, through the efforts of the innumerable writers and activists she influenced, has become the accepted wisdom of the modern era. The present edition contains a substantial essay by a major scholar to celebrate the bicentenary of publication in 1792.

About the author

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797); zunächst Schulleiterin und Gouvernante, dann Lektorin und Schriftstellerin; verheiratet mit dem englischen Schriftsteller William Godwin. Die gleichnamige Tochter ist die spätere Mary Shelley.

Summary

Writing just after the French and American revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft firmly established the demand for women’s emancipation in the context of the ever-widening urge for human rights and individual freedom that followed in the wake of these two great upheavals.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Wollstonecraft
• Publisher: Everyman
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• EAN: 9781857150865
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-086-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Weight: 398 g
• Series: Everyman's library; Everyman's Library; Everyman's Library Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PHILOSOPHY / Political, Mary Shelley, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls