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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Edited by:
Eileen Hunt Botting
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
About this book
Mary Wollstonecraft’s visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women’s rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking feminist argument includes illuminating essays by leading scholars that highlight the author’s significant contributions to modern political philosophy, making a powerful case for her as one of the most substantive political thinkers of the Enlightenment era. No other scholarly work to date has examined as closely both the ideological moorings and the enduring legacy of Wollstonecraft’s courageous discourse.
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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. Eileen Hunt Botting is associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.
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Frontmatter
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Contributors
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Contents
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Editor’s Introduction: Reading Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792–2014
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Text: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London, second edition, 1792)
19 - Essays
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Are Women Human? Wollstonecraft’s Defense of Rights for Women
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“Genius will educate itself.” The British Literary Context of Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Its Legacy for Women
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The Personal Is Political: Wollstonecraft’s Witty, First-Person, Feminist Voice
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Reading Mary Wollstonecraft in Time
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Biographical Directory for Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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The Life and Times of Wollstonecraft and Her Family, 1688–1818
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman within the Women’s Human Rights Tradition, 1739–2015
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Bibliography
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Index
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Rethinking the Western Tradition
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August 26, 2014
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9780300207040
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