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Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints By Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints by Mary Wollstonecraft


Summary

This edition brings together Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), her most famous work, and the earlier text A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), her first formulation of a wide-ranging moral and political critique of her times.

Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints Summary

Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints by Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft, often described as the first major feminist, is remembered principally as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and there has been a tendency to view her most famous work in isolation. Yet Wollstonecraft's pronouncements about women grew out of her reflections about men, and her views on the female sex constituted an integral part of a wider moral and political critique of her times which she first fully formulated in A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790). Written as a reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), this is an important text in its own right as well as a necessary tool for understanding Wollstonecraft's later work. This edition brings the two texts together and also includes Hints, the notes which Wollstonecraft made towards a second, never completed, volume of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints Reviews

'... a thoughtful, wide-ranging and important examination of Wollstonecraft's thought ... Wollstonecraft is skilfully considered in terms of radical Enlightenment thought, and the links between this and feminism are probed in a treatment that is alive to the diversity of this radicalism.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

About Mary Wollstonecraft

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Table of Contents

1. The rights and involved duties of mankind considered; 2. The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed; 3. The same subject continued; 4. Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes; 5. Animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contempt; 6. The effect which an early association of ideas has upon the character; 7. Modesty - comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual virtue; 8. Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation; 9. Of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society; 10. Parental affection; 11. Duty to parents; 12. On national education; 13. Some instances of the folly which the ignorance of women generates; with concluding reflections on the moral improvement that a revolution in female manners might naturally be expected to produce.

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Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Cambridge University Press
1995-07-06
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