A vindication of the rights of woman /

This edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) highlights Wollstonecraft's contributions to modern political philosophy, especially the idea of women's human rights, alongside the cultural and political contexts that inspired her important feminist a...

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Main Author:	Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 (Author)
Other Authors:	Hunt, Eileen M., 1971- (Editor, Contributor), Abbey, Ruth, 1961- (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2014]
Series:	Rethinking the Western tradition.
Subjects:	Women's rights > Great Britain > Early works to 1800. Women > Education > Great Britain > Early works to 1800. Feminism > Early works to 1800. PHILOSOPHY / Political. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.

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Summary:	This edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) highlights Wollstonecraft's contributions to modern political philosophy, especially the idea of women's human rights, alongside the cultural and political contexts that inspired her important feminist arguments. It includes an introduction by Eileen Hunt Botting (the editor) and several new scholarly essays on the philosophical, literary and political legacies of the Rights of Woman by Ruth Abbey, Eileen Hunt Botting, Norma Clarke, Madeline Cronin and Virginia Sapiro. A biographical directory, two historical timelines and comprehensive index complement the essays.
Physical Description:	357 pages ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-331) and index.
ISBN:	9780300176476 (paperback) 0300176473 (paperback)