A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

Published by Yale University Press 2014

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft
Edited by: Eileen Hunt Botting

In the series Rethinking the Western Tradition

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300207040

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About this book

Mary Wollstonecraft’s visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women’s rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking feminist argument includes illuminating essays by leading scholars that highlight the author’s significant contributions to modern political philosophy, making a powerful case for her as one of the most substantive political thinkers of the Enlightenment era. No other scholarly work to date has examined as closely both the ideological moorings and the enduring legacy of Wollstonecraft’s courageous discourse.

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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. Eileen Hunt Botting is associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Editor’s Introduction: Reading Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792–2014 Eileen Hunt Botting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Text: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London, second edition, 1792) Mary Wollstonecraft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Essays
Are Women Human? Wollstonecraft’s Defense of Rights for Women Ruth Abbey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
“Genius will educate itself.” The British Literary Context of Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Its Legacy for Women Norma Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
The Personal Is Political: Wollstonecraft’s Witty, First-Person, Feminist Voice Eileen Hunt Botting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Reading Mary Wollstonecraft in Time Virginia Sapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Appendixes
Biographical Directory for Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Madeline Cronin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
The Life and Times of Wollstonecraft and Her Family, 1688–1818 Madeline Cronin and Eileen Hunt Botting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman within the Women’s Human Rights Tradition, 1739–2015 Eileen Hunt Botting and Madeline Cronin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Rethinking the Western Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 368

eBook

Published: August 26, 2014
ISBN: 9780300207040