A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN: with strictures on political and moral subjects…
by WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary
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Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman is the classic text of women's liberation - a rational plea for a rational basis to the relation between the sexes.
She argued forcefully and decisively for improved, and in effect equal education for men and women. The mere fact of writing on this subject caused an outcry, even though there was nothing really shocking in her arguments. She did not attack the institution of marriage, or the practice of religion. Instead she argued for equality of education for both sexes, and for state control and co-education.
Reviled by the male establishment in her lifetime (Horace Walpole called her 'that hyaena in petticoats'), Wollstonecraft was read attentively by women: Mary Berry records in her letters reading Hannah More and Wollstonecraft and comparing their attitudes on the education of women.
The Dublin edition was actually published on the 20th October 1792 and not 1793 as stated on the title, so just a short while after the second London edition had appeared.
PMM 242; Windle A5e; OCLC: 1513109; see Claire Tomalin, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (1974).
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- Title
- A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN: with strictures on political and moral subjects…
- Author
- WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary
- Book Condition
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- Hardcover
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- Printed by J. Stockdale, for James Moore, No. 45, College-Green.
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1793
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- 0.00 lbs
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