Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), author and pioneering feminist, answers Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France in this, her first stirring political pamphlet. In A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), Wollstonecraft refutes Burke's assertions that human liberties are an "entailed inheritance," that the alliance between church and state is necessary for civil order, and that civil authority should be restricted to men "of permanent property." Rather, liberties are rights which all human beings "inherit at their birth, as rational creatures."
- ISBN10 1605204544
- ISBN13 9781605204543
- Publish Date 1 November 2008 (first published 1 December 1975)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Cosimo Classics
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English