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Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman written by the 18th-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society, claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be "companions" to their husbands, rather than mere wives. Instead of viewing women as ornaments to society or property to be traded in marriage, Wollstonecraft maintains that they are human beings deserving of the same fundamental rights as men. Wollstonecraft was prompted to write the Rights of Woman after reading Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's 1791 report to the French National Assembly, which stated that women should only receive a domestic education; she used her commentary on this specific event to launch a broad attack against sexual double standards and to indict men for encouraging women to indulge in excessive emotion. Wollstonecraft wrote the Rights of Woman hurriedly to respond directly to ongoing events; she intended to write a more thoughtful second volume but died before completing it. While Wollstonecraft does call for equality between the sexes in particular areas of life, such as morality, she does not explicitly state that men and women are equal. Her ambiguous statements regarding the equality of the sexes have since made it difficult to classify Wollstonecraft as a modern feminist, particularly since the word and the concept were unavailable to her. Although it is commonly assumed now that the Rights of Woman was unfavourably received, this is a modern misconception based on the belief that Wollstonecraft was as reviled during her lifetime as she became after the publication of William Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798). The Rights of Woman was actually well received when it was first published in 1792. One biographer has called it "perhaps the most original book of [Wollstonecraft's] century". Review: Surprisingly Coherent...though written by a woman (sarcasm) - Its nice not to have to trudge through a read. My norm seems to be expletive-laced grumbling while the last page can't come soon enough. Wollstonecraft has been a breath of fresh air. I have to admit that I went into it with bias. I've read so many male philosophers, probably because women at the time weren't taken seriously, as what happened with Wollstonecraft and the ridicule she received. I was nervous that it was going to be trite and overly emotional. It was an extraordinary blend of reason and sentiment. Her style is poetic. At times, it feels it almost has a sing-song way about it. Her ability reminds me of Jane Austen and makes it very hard to put the book down. I wonder how much Austen lifted from Wollstonecraft considering there was a section on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Her philosophy is intriguing. Wollstonecraft was quite ahead of her time. She felt that women were trapped in an eternal childhood in the way they were treated by their other halves. This left them unable to be good wives much less good mothers. She makes the argument that not only can women reason, but they can be employed in any field. She envisions a time where boys and girls, rich or poor, can be educated together. As an aside, I don't think the public school system has worked out so well. I attended a joke of a school. That is why I am grateful to have the opportunity to homeschool. Even if you disagree with her assessment that children should be publicly educated, her main point is that boys and girls alike can be educated the same. She actually advocated for a private/public school mix. I'm not sure that our modern day system would meet her vision at all. The crème de la crème? Pages upon pages of attacks on Rousseau. I think I've formed a personal vendetta against Rousseau so when she blasts his inane philosophy for nearly 1/3 of the book, it could only bring a sense of sweet justice. If you're no fan of Rousseau, its worth the read just for that. Ya know, the guy who created Civil Religion. The guy who wrote books about how children should be educated then abandoned all 5 of his newborn children to a foundling hospital. The guy who said women were created for his pleasure. Yeah, its a pretty epic takedown. Enjoy. Review: For the Godwin!!!! - Nothing is bad, nothing is good. It should be a level playing field and let the players or participants slug it out. Let it be known that all of humanity has a right to be happy if they want, sad if they want and nothing at all if they want. It's life. It shouldn't be difficult, it should be a life. We can be better. And I can only thank my parents and theirs, but moat importantly my mother, and hers, and hers... and Mother Nature, she's a 365 days a year reminder that we can do what we need to do in order to give others the chance to exist. Let us make it a place to coexist, and stop the hate, plus any type of discrimination. And if not, let the Australia plan become real in antartica, send the cold hearts south. They'll learn to warm up to peace, real quick. Thank you for reading and thank you for being nice to me and mine. You have provided quite a bit of joy. -TophGainesvilleFL ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #4,491,254 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #25,767 in Classic Literature & Fiction | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,396 Reviews | ## Images ![A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: By Mary Wollstonecraft - Illustrated - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51MKG9jaBhL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Surprisingly Coherent...though written by a woman (sarcasm) *by N***O on July 24, 2015* Its nice not to have to trudge through a read. My norm seems to be expletive-laced grumbling while the last page can't come soon enough. Wollstonecraft has been a breath of fresh air. I have to admit that I went into it with bias. I've read so many male philosophers, probably because women at the time weren't taken seriously, as what happened with Wollstonecraft and the ridicule she received. I was nervous that it was going to be trite and overly emotional. It was an extraordinary blend of reason and sentiment. Her style is poetic. At times, it feels it almost has a sing-song way about it. Her ability reminds me of Jane Austen and makes it very hard to put the book down. I wonder how much Austen lifted from Wollstonecraft considering there was a section on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Her philosophy is intriguing. Wollstonecraft was quite ahead of her time. She felt that women were trapped in an eternal childhood in the way they were treated by their other halves. This left them unable to be good wives much less good mothers. She makes the argument that not only can women reason, but they can be employed in any field. She envisions a time where boys and girls, rich or poor, can be educated together. As an aside, I don't think the public school system has worked out so well. I attended a joke of a school. That is why I am grateful to have the opportunity to homeschool. Even if you disagree with her assessment that children should be publicly educated, her main point is that boys and girls alike can be educated the same. She actually advocated for a private/public school mix. I'm not sure that our modern day system would meet her vision at all. The crème de la crème? Pages upon pages of attacks on Rousseau. I think I've formed a personal vendetta against Rousseau so when she blasts his inane philosophy for nearly 1/3 of the book, it could only bring a sense of sweet justice. If you're no fan of Rousseau, its worth the read just for that. Ya know, the guy who created Civil Religion. The guy who wrote books about how children should be educated then abandoned all 5 of his newborn children to a foundling hospital. The guy who said women were created for his pleasure. Yeah, its a pretty epic takedown. Enjoy. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ For the Godwin!!!! *by T***L on July 28, 2021* Nothing is bad, nothing is good. It should be a level playing field and let the players or participants slug it out. Let it be known that all of humanity has a right to be happy if they want, sad if they want and nothing at all if they want. It's life. It shouldn't be difficult, it should be a life. We can be better. And I can only thank my parents and theirs, but moat importantly my mother, and hers, and hers... and Mother Nature, she's a 365 days a year reminder that we can do what we need to do in order to give others the chance to exist. Let us make it a place to coexist, and stop the hate, plus any type of discrimination. And if not, let the Australia plan become real in antartica, send the cold hearts south. They'll learn to warm up to peace, real quick. Thank you for reading and thank you for being nice to me and mine. You have provided quite a bit of joy. -TophGainesvilleFL ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This treatise inspires me to not take my rights for granted. *by E***L on September 8, 2020* Mary Wollstonecraft discusses several points in this book, which all direct men, women, and society at large, to provide women with a legitimate education. I found her chapters on education itself to be interesting since she spoke of education for girls and boys. In her time period, education was problematic for both sexes. Children were sent off to boarding schools and separated by sex. Schoolmasters dealt with an overload of students leading to strict disciplinary measures designed to keep the children organized but which severely repressed their mental and emotional growth. I thought back to scenes on Dickens' novels and others of the time period where little boys and girls were bullied by the older children and by the teachers. Speaking specifically of the girls, Wollstonecraft showed that appearance and the ability to please was so overly emphasized, that girls had no wherewithal to learn studies, and those they were taught were useless (a few phrases in French or Italian, learned by rote, for example), as there was no understanding applied. Wollstonecraft discussed motherhood and childrearing and I found her examples just as intriguing as those on education. She strongly emphasized morality as well as effectiveness regarding the practices current in her time period. Women who pushed their young offspring off to be raised by nurses did themselves and their children harm. Instead of a bond of love, mutually developing mother and child physically, mentally, and emotionally, Wollstonecraft witnessed mothers returning to their vain, flirtatious, insipid lives, while children were left without good parental role models, to the influences of often immoral peers and caregivers. A mixture of repression and license leads to a vicious cycle where the children, boys and girls, grow up to be like their parents: without respect for women. I enjoyed all Wollstonecraft's counterpoints tp Rousseau's writings, and I'm interested I'm a way to read some of his works. From her quotes, he sounds like a real piece of work. Another historical figure that I wouldn't mind time traveling in order to visit him with a well placed kick in the pants. I highlighted several passages as I read this through Kindle so I don't need to include those quotes in this review. All in all, I'll repeat my first statement in this review when I say that I felt proud and grateful to be a woman in modern times and I owe that in part to this inspiring author! ## Frequently Bought Together - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: By Mary Wollstonecraft - Illustrated - Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, ... 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