Sandrine Berges

The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. 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. Her most celebrated and widelyread work is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. It is ideal for anyone coming to Wollstonecraft's classic text for the first time and anyone interested in the origins of feminist thought.

Produktdetails

• The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9780415674140
• ISBN-10: 041567414X
• Artikelnr.: 32888983

Autorenporträt

Sandrine Berges is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bilkent, Turkey.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Series Editor Preface Author Preface 1. The First of a New
Genus 2. The rights of woman and national education 3. Brutes or rational
beings? 4. Relative virtues and meretricious slaves 5. Abject slaves and
capricious 6. Angels and Beasts 7. Taste and unclouded reason 8. Rational
fellowship or slavish obedience? Love, marriage and family 9. Concluding
reflections Bibliography Index