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

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary, -- 1759-1797.

Women's rights -- Great Britain.

Women -- Education.

Women's rights.

Feminism.

Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin] was a British teacher and writer. Her path-breaking feminist manifesto argued for the spiritual and rational equality of women and was extremely influential in years to come, on both sides of the Atlantic. She argued that the rights of man and of woman were one and the same thing. Though her demand for "justice for one-half of the human race" was revolutionary for her time, she found a following among radicals and educated women as the nineteenth century progressed, and succeeded in initiating a new regard for women as a social force. Tragically, after Wollstonecraft met and married William Godwin (1756-1836) , she died giving birth to their daughter Mary, future author of the novel Frankenstein.

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)

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London: [s.n.]

1792