Political Philosophy · Natural Rights
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Written in six weeks in answer to a French report proposing that girls receive only domestic education. Wollstonecraft’s argument is not that women are the equals of men in fact but that they are denied the education which would let the question be asked honestly, and that a society claiming natural rights while excluding half its members is not reasoning but flattering itself. One of the earliest works to apply the rights language of 1789 to the people it had passed over.
- Period
- 1792
- Region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Public domain — published 1792, before 1930, so the work is free of copyright in the United States. The scan is the Internet Archive's, released without additional restriction.
- Source
- https://archive.org/details/vindicationofrig00wol
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