| A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Contributor(s): Wollstonecraft, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 161895170X ISBN-13: 9781618951700 Publisher: Bibliotech Press OUR PRICE: $13.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Family & Relationships - Political Science | Women In Politics |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6" W x 9" (0.64 lbs) 194 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society, claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be "companions" to their husbands, rather than mere wives. Instead of viewing women as ornaments to society or property to be traded in marriage, Wollstonecraft maintains that they are human beings deserving of the same fundamental rights as men. |