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

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.

'… 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

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ISBN 13	9780521436335
ISBN 10	0521436338
Title	Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints
Author	Mary Wollstonecraft
Series	Cambridge Texts In The History Of Political Thought
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1995-07-06
Number of pages	394
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