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  3. Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
1995
Online ISBN:
9780511841231
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511841231
Subjects:
Sociology of Gender, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought, Sociology, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series:
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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Book description

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.

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‘… 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.’

Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

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