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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who ...
The book was heavily criticized and Godwin was forced to revise it for a second edition in August of the same year. [9] Godwin's openness was not always appreciated by the people he named; Wollstonecraft's sisters, Everina and Eliza, lost students at the school they ran in Ireland as a result of the Memoir.
Mary Wollstonecraft (UK: / ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r ɑː f t / WUUL-stən-krahft, US: /-k r æ f t /-kraft; [1] 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights.
The Rights of Women [including the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen], Olympe de Gouges (1791) [28] Breve difesa dei diritti delle donne scritta da Rosa Califronia contessa romana,, A Brief Defence of the Rights of Women of Rosa Califronia, Roman Countess, Rosa Califronia (1794) [29] La causa delle donne.
In her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote that she must address Fordyce's Sermons, though they do not deserve such notice, because they had been given as reading material to so many young people. Quoting passages from the sermons, Wollstonecraft noted "condescending endearment" and "sexual ...
A new book from two New York Times reporters—The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America—details how fights about abortion are actually debates about the place of women in American life.
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Pages in category "Books by Mary Wollstonecraft" ... A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman