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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft

By Mary Wollstonecraft

Release Date: 2024-11-11

Genre: Philosophy

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Written in the midst of the French Revolution and the British pamphlet war surrounding it, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman as an answer to a report by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-PĂ©rigord, to whom her essay is dedicated. Talleyrand had reported to the French National Assembly on the topic of public education, and noted that women needed only enough education to suit them for the “paternal home.”

Wollstonecraft objected to this recommendation and, in this book, argues for the equal treatment of women in society, while still highlighting the differences between the sexes. Her argument touches on many topics, focusing extensively on the needs of educating women the same as men. She argues against either sex viewing women as mere ornamentation, and advocates for the substantive contributions educated women could make to society.

Though initially well-received, Wollstonecraft’s essay suffered in reputation after her husband, William Godwin, published a biography of her after her death. His details of her private life conflicted with the orthodoxy of the time, and cast a pall on her writing for nearly a century. Still, her work is viewed as having been influential on the women’s suffrage movement in the U.S. that began in the mid-19th century, and as a precursor to modern feminist philosophy.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft

By Mary Wollstonecraft

Release Date: 2024-11-11

Genre: Philosophy

(0 ratings)
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Written in the midst of the French Revolution and the British pamphlet war surrounding it, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman as an answer to a report by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-PĂ©rigord, to whom her essay is dedicated. Talleyrand had reported to the French National Assembly on the topic of public education, and noted that women needed only enough education to suit them for the “paternal home.”

Wollstonecraft objected to this recommendation and, in this book, argues for the equal treatment of women in society, while still highlighting the differences between the sexes. Her argument touches on many topics, focusing extensively on the needs of educating women the same as men. She argues against either sex viewing women as mere ornamentation, and advocates for the substantive contributions educated women could make to society.

Though initially well-received, Wollstonecraft’s essay suffered in reputation after her husband, William Godwin, published a biography of her after her death. His details of her private life conflicted with the orthodoxy of the time, and cast a pall on her writing for nearly a century. Still, her work is viewed as having been influential on the women’s suffrage movement in the U.S. that began in the mid-19th century, and as a precursor to modern feminist philosophy.

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