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

Mary Wollstonecraft And Katha Pollitt

ISBN 10: 0375757228 / ISBN 13: 9780375757228

Published by Random House Publishing Group, New York, NY, 2001

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Modern Library Classics; 212 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Yellowing to pages. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375757228
• ISBN 13: 9780375757228
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Good+

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.