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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft and Miriam Brody   Series: Penguin Classics

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First published in 1792, Wollstonecraft's book attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity and laid out the principles of emancipation - an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner.

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First published in 1792, Wollstonecraft's book attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity and laid out the principles of emancipation - an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner.

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One of the strongest and earliest arguments for the importance of female equalityWriting in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation- an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft's work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - Walpole called her 'a hyena in petticoats' - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.

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“"We hear [Mary Wollstonecraft's] voice and trace her influence even now among the living."”

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About the Author

Mary Wollstonecraft (Author)Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) was a writer and founding feminist philosopher. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is her most famous work, but she also wrote novels, treatises and a history of the French Revolution, many of whose events she witnessed first-hand in Paris. She died eleven days after giving birth to her daughter, Mary Shelley.Miriam Brody (External Editor, Introducer)Miriam Brody is a professor in the Writing Program at Ithaca College, New York.

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Penguin Classics
Published
28th October 2004
Edition
3rd
Pages
352
ISBN
9780141441252

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