a vindication of the rights of women published

'Although Wollstonecraft is best known as a feminist thinker, her philosophies are not limited to women’s issues… Wollstonecraft advocates liberty and equality for all humanity. In disagreement with Rousseau… Wollstonecraft urged ‘rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience” (Legacies of Genius 64). The central theme of the work on women’s rights was that they should be educated to carry a responsibility in society equal to that of men. “Wollstonecraft’s major work caused an outcry when it was published and is hailed as a cornerstone of feminism…. An exceptional example, most rare and desirable in contemporary calf. In near fine condition with some light toning to the text. From the library of Scottish writer and critic George Lillie Craik with his bookplate. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarters calf over marbled boards. Rare first edition of this landmark work in both Enlightenment philosophy and the history of feminism. Tragically, she died the next year after giving birth to her daughter, Mary Godwin (who would later become the wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley).A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. In 1796, she married the English philosopher and dissenting minister William Godwin. Her other published works include the novel Mary (1788) and Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (1794). In that work Burke defended the hereditary principle of succession, the alliance between church and state, and rule by men 'of permanent property.' In 1792, Wollstonecraft published the highly influential A Vindication of the Rights of Women, advocating equality of the sexes. Her first pamphlet, A Vindication of the Rights of Men (meaning all humanity), published in 1790, served as a spirited rebuttal to Edmund Burke's argument, in his newly published Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). The political upheaval in France fired her interest, and she watched closely the events of the Revolution. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797), born near London, supported herself in her early years as a governess and as a school teacher.

A vindication of the rights of women published