Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Produktbeschreibung

Wollstonecraft's passionate polemic on behalf of women's rights and education remains an essential text in the feminist canon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9781108018852
• ISBN-10: 1108018858
• Artikelnr.: 30979863

Autorenporträt

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships at the time, received more attention than her writing. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as important influences. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason. After Wollstonecraft's death, her widower published a Memoir (1798) of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for almost a century. However, with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38 leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. She died eleven days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, who would become an accomplished writer and author of Frankenstein.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Introduction
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 may naturally be expected to produce.