Books with author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Writing 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.

Writing 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.

Why is this version of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects special?Contains:The original bookA biography of the authorA detailed historical review of feminismA Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. Wollstonecraft refers to those 18th-century social and political thinkers who did not believe women should provide fair schooling. She argues that women should have education commensurate with their position in society, claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate their children and could be "companions" to their husbands rather than mere wives. Instead of viewing women as ornaments of culture or goods to be sold in marriage, Wollstonecraft insists that they demand the same human rights as men.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should receive a rational education.