A vindication of the rights of men ; with A vindication of the rights of woman, and Hints / Mary Wollstonecraft ; edited by Sylvana Tomaselli.

By:

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797

Contributor(s):

Tomaselli, Sylvana, 1957-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.Description: xxxviii, 349 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0521430534
0521436338

Contained works:

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 Vindication of the rights of woman

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

323 WOL

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	323 WOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000299298

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Mary Wollstonecraft, often described as the first major feminist, is remembered principally as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and there has been a tendency to view her most famous work in isolation. Yet Wollstonecraft's pronouncements about women grew out of her reflections about men, and her views on the female sex constituted an integral part of a wider moral and political critique of her times which she first fully formulated in A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790). Written as a reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), this is an important text in its own right as well as a necessary tool for understanding Wollstonecraft's later work. This edition brings the two texts together and also includes Hints, the notes which Wollstonecraft made towards a second, never completed, volume of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

1 The rights and involved duties of mankind considered
2 The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed
3 The same subject continued
4 Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes
5 Animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contempt
6 The effect which an early association of ideas has upon the character
7 Modesty - Comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual virtue
8 Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation
9 Of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society
10 Parental affection
11 Duty to parents
12 On national education
13 Some instances of the folly which the ignorance of women generates; with concluding reflections on the moral improvement that a revolution in female manners might naturally be expected to produce

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Mary Wollstonecraft was born in London on April 27, 1759. She opened a school in Newington Green with her sister Eliza and a friend Fanny Blood in 1784. Her experiences lead her to attack traditional teaching methods and suggested new topics of study in Thoughts on the Education of Girls. In 1792, she published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she attacked the educational restrictions that kept women ignorant and dependant on men as well as describing marriage as legal prostitution. In Maria or the Wrongs of Woman, published unfinished in 1798, she asserted that women had strong sexual desires and that it was degrading and immoral to pretend otherwise.

In 1793, Wollstonecraft became involved with American writer Gilbert Imlay and had a daughter named Fanny. After this relationship ended, she married William Godwin in March 1797 and had a daughter named Mary in August. Wollstonecraft died from complications following childbirth on September 10, 1797. Her daughter Mary later married Percy Bysshe Shelley and wrote Frankenstein.

(Bowker Author Biography)