A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Pocket Hardbacks) (Modern Library Classics (eBook)) (Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries)

by Mary Wollstonecraft

Miriam Brody (Introduction)

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Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft's work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - Walpole called her 'a hyena in petticoats' - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.
  • ISBN10 0141441259
  • ISBN13 9780141441252
  • Publish Date 28 October 2004 (first published 1 June 1755)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics