A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

By:

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 17th and 18th Centuries

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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. It was written in reaction to Rousseau's Emile (1762), which argued that the purpose of a girl's education was to make her useful to a man. Wollstonecraft offered a defence of woman's ability to reason, given appropriate education. She argued that the limited education given to women made them docile and empty-headed playthings whose supposed fragility and coquetry were constructions that damaged not only the individual but society as a whole. Her radical prescription was for girls to be educated alongside boys and to the same standard, so that they were not left dependent on marriage for financial security. The independence of mind displayed in this polemic has ensured its place as a foundational work in the canon of feminist thought. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=wollma

Release date Australia

October 28th, 2010

Author

Mary Wollstonecraft

Audience

Further/Higher Education

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

478

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 17th and 18th Centuries

Dimensions

140x216x27

ISBN-13

9781108018852

Product ID

8138688

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