Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

Mary Wollstonecraft author Sylvana Tomaselli editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:6th Jul '95

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An edition of two of Wollstonecraft's texts, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and A Vindication of the Rights of Men.

This edition brings together Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), her most famous work, and the earlier text A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), her first formulation of a wide-ranging moral and political critique of her times.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

ISBN: 9780521430531

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 26mm

Weight: 650g

394 pages