A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
$29.75
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2001
Summary
First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends to women the Enlightenment principle of “the rights of man,” its argument remains as relevant today as it was for Wollstonecraft’s contemporaries.
“Mary Wollstonecraft was not the first writer to call for women to receive a real, challenging education,” writes Katha Pollitt in th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375757228 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375757228 |
| Author: | Mary Wollstonecraft, Katha Pollitt |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2001 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 133mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“We hear [Mary Wollstonecraft’s] voice and trace her influence even now among the living.”
“We hear [Mary Wollstonecraft’s] voice and trace her influence even now among the living.”
About The Author
Mary Wollstonecraft
Katha Pollitt is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation. Author of the recently published Subject to Debate- Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture, she lives in New York City.
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