A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (AmazonClassics Edition)

Wollstonecraft, Mary

ISBN 10: 1503901599 / ISBN 13: 9781503901599

Edité par AmazonClassics, 2018

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (AmazonClassics Edition)
• Éditeur: AmazonClassics
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1503901599
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781503901599
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman tackles many of the punitive patriarchal attitudes that dominated eighteenth-century society. With warmth and passion, Mary Wollstonecraft urges women to prioritize reason over emotion―a necessary step in building the strength of character required to break free from male notions of female fragility and foolishness. Wollstonecraft bases much of her argument in the case for women’s education. Without it, women are merely men’s “slaves” and “playthings”―not the intelligent, rational companions of a just and equal society.

As stirring as when it debuted, Wollstonecraft’s signature work remains an essential text in the feminist literary canon.

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Revised edition: Previously published as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, this edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

À propos de l?auteur

English author, philosopher, and protofeminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which was an early critique of conventional femininity. Her career was cut short by her death at age thirty-eight, eleven days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later, Shelley)―who would go on to write Frankenstein. Wollstonecraft’s husband, philosopher William Godwin, posthumously published a memoir about his wife, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently tarnished her reputation for more than a century. Today, however, Wollstonecraft’s individuality is celebrated, and she is considered one of feminism’s earliest, most influential figures.