A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Couverture souple

Mary Wollstonecraft, Wollstonecraft; Mary Wollstonecraft

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1604240636 ISBN 13 : 9781604240634

Editeur : Book Jungle, 2007

Synopsis

Written in 1792 this is one of the earliest works on feminism and philosophy. The major themes in the book are as follows; social class, republicanism, sensibility, rational education and most of all feminism. Wollstonecraft insisted that women must be educated according to their class, since they had the major responsibility educating the nation's children.

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft - The Original Classic Edition

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We can scarcely avoid regret that one of such splendid talents, and high toned feelings, should, after the former seemed to have been fully developed, and the latter had found an object in whom they might repose, after their eccentric and painful efforts to find a resting place-that such an one should at such a time, be cut off from life is something which we cannot contemplate without feeling regret; we can scarcely repress the murmur that she had not been removed ere clouds darkened her horizon, or that she had remained to witness the brightness and serenity which might have succeeded.

. . . In this work I have produced many arguments, which to me were conclusive, to prove, that the prevailing notion respecting a sexual character was subversive of morality, and I have contended, that to render the human body and mind more perfect, chastity must more universally prevail, and that chastity will never be respected in the male world till the person of a woman is not, as it were, idolized when little virtue or sense embellish it with the grand traces of mental beauty, or the interesting simplicity of affection.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759 in Spitalfields, London. After an unsettled childhood, she opened a school following which, her first work, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, was published in 1787. After a stint as governess in Ireland, she continued to write and published several other works including Mary (1788), A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and her most famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). That year she travelled to Paris where she met Gilbert Imlay, by whom she had a daughter, Fanny. Her travels around Scandinavia with her baby daughter in 1795, inspired her travel book Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, but on returning to London Imlay’s neglect drove her to two suicide attempts. In 1797 she married William Godwin, and had a daughter, the future Mary Shelley. Wollstonecraft died of septicaemia shortly after the birth.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Jungle
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1604240636
• ISBN 13: 9781604240634
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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