Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
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Part of the series Rethinking the western tradition;Rethinking the Western tradition.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-331) and index.
• Editor’s introduction : Reading Wollstonecraft’s A vindication of the rights of woman, 1792-2014 / Eileen Hunt Botting — Text : A vindication of the rights of woman (London, second edition, 1792) / Mary Wollstonecraft — Essays : Are women human?: Wollstonecraft’s defense of rights for women / Ruth Abbey — Genius will educate itself : The British literary context of Wollstonecraft’s A vindication of the rights of woman and its legacy for women / Norma Clarke — The personal is political: Wollstonecraft’s witty, first-person, feminist voice / Eileen Hunt Botting — Reading Mary Wollstonecraft in time / Virginia Spiro — Appendixes. Biographical directory for Wollstonecraft’s A vindication of the rights of woman / Madeline Cronin — The life and times of Wollstonecraft and her family, 1688-1818 / Madeline Cronin and Eileen Hunt Botting — A vindication of the rights of woman within the women’s human rights tradition, 1739-2015 / Eileen Hunt Botting and Madeline Cronin.
• This edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) highlights Wollstonecraft’s contributions to modern political philosophy, especially the idea of women’s human rights, alongside the cultural and political contexts that inspired her important feminist arguments. It includes an introduction by Eileen Hunt Botting (the editor) and several new scholarly essays on the philosophical, literary, and political legacies of the Rights of Woman by Ruth Abbey, Eileen Hunt Botting, Norma Clarke, Madeline Cronin, and Virginia Sapiro. A biographical directory, two historical timelines, and comprehensive index complement the essays — Provided by publisher.

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