A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (Paperback, New Ed)

The first great feminist manifesto, a work that remains relevant, even modern. It puts forward the argument that women of all classes were as oppressed as the industrial proletariat. No understanding of modern feminism is possible without a knowledge of this seminal work. Mary Wollstonecraft's was (by the way) the mother of Mary Shelley, the creator of Frankenstein. (Kirkus UK)

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 Woll-stonecraft's contemporaries. "Mary Wollstonecraft was not the first writer to call for women to receive a real, challenging education," writes Katha Pollitt in the new Introduction. "But she was the first to connect the education of women to the transformation of women's social position, of relations between the sexes, and even of society itself. She was the first to argue that women's intellectual equality would and should have actual consequences. The winds of change sweep through her pages."

This classic work of early feminism remains as relevant and passionate today as it was for Wollstonecraft's contemporaries. This edition includes new explanatory notes.

General

Imprint:	Modern Library Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Modern Library Classics
Release date:	June 2001
First published:	June 2001
Authors:	Mary Wollstonecraft
Introduction by:	Katha Pollitt
Dimensions:	202 x 131 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-75722-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship Promotions
LSN:	0-375-75722-8
Barcode:	9780375757228

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