A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
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Title
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Subject
Women's rights.
Women Social and moral questions.
Early works.
Women Social and moral questions.
Early works.
Description
"Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) wrote the book in part as a reaction to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution, published in late 1790. Burke saw the French Revolution as a movement which would inevitably fail, as society needed traditional structures such as inherited positions and property in order to strengthen it. Wollstonecraft’s initial response was to write A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), a rebuttal of Burke that argued in favour of parliamentary reform, and stating that religious and civil liberties were part of a man’s birth right, with corruption caused in the main by ignorance. This argument for men’s rights wasn’t unique – Thomas Paine published his Rights of Man in 1791, also arguing against Burke – but Wollstonecraft proceeded to go one step further, and, for the first time, a book was published that argued for women’s rights to be on the same footing as men’s." - Source: The British Library
Creator
Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797
Source
Clary collection, Special Collections
See item record for more details.
See item record for more details.
Publisher
London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church Yard
Date
1972
Rights
Public Domain.
Relation
Explore a digitized copy at the University of Michigan.
Language
English
Citation
Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects,” The Claremont Colleges Library Special Collections Online Repository, accessed May 4, 2024, https://tcclsc.omeka.net/items/show/584.