A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

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Mary Wollstonecraft Katha Pollitt

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Mary Wollstonecraft, Katha Pollitt

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Modern Library Inc
15 June 2001

Feminism & feminist theory; Civil rights & citizenship

Series: Modern Library Classics

First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success,

turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work

of early feminism that extends to women the Enlightenment principle of ""the rights

of man,"" its argument remains as relevant today as it was for Woll-stonecraft's contemporaries.

""Mary Wollstonecraft was not the first writer to call for women to receive a real,

challenging education,"" writes Katha Pollitt in the new Introduction. ""But she was

the first to connect the education of women to the transformation of women's social

position, of relations between the sexes, and even of society itself. She was the

first to argue that women's intellectual equality would and should have actual consequences.

The winds of change sweep through her pages.""

This classic work of early feminism

remains as relevant and passionate today as it was for Wollstonecraft's contemporaries.

This edition includes new explanatory notes.

By: Mary Wollstonecraft
Introduction by: Katha Pollitt
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 210g
ISBN: 9780375757228
ISBN 10: 0375757228
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 June 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katha Pollitt is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation. Author of the recently published Subject to Debate- Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture, she lives in New York City.

Reviews for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

The first great feminist manifesto, a work that remains relevant, even modern. It puts forward the argument that women of all classes were as oppressed as the industrial proletariat. No understanding of modern feminism is possible without a knowledge of this seminal work. Mary Wollstonecraft's was (by the way) the mother of Mary Shelley, the creator of Frankenstein. (Kirkus UK)