On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman : : The First of a New Genus / / Susan J. Wolfson.

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women’s equality. Emerging from the turbulent decade of the French Revolution, her vindication delivered a systematic critique of the treatment of women across time and place. Dra...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Core Knowledge
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • My Texts, Abbreviations, and Short Titles
  • Prologue: Why Mary Wollstonecraft? Why A Vindication?
  • 1. How Mary Wollstonecraft Became “the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
  • 2. Picturing Mary Wollstonecraft: The Right Woman
  • 3. “An Amazon stept out”: A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
  • 4. “Revolution in female manners”: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792)
  • 5. Dystopian Nightmare: Paris, December 26, 1792
  • 6. “bastilled . . . for life”: The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria; a Fragment (1798)
  • Epilogue: “we hear her voice”
  • Brief Glossary of Recurring Names
  • Notes
  • Further Reading and Bibliographies
  • Index