A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Written by Mary Wollstonecraft
Narrated by Fiona Shaw and Jonathan Keeble
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In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft tackles the wasted potential she sees in women, refusing to see them as inferior to men; she decries their limitations and suggests that they are worthy of an equal standard of education and that they should be taught to develop their own reason, not simply how to gain a man. Written in 1792, at the height of the French Revolution, A Vindication is an eloquent and persuasive response to the prevailing attitudes of the time. It is the original feminist manifesto.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was an English writer. She is best known for her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she puts forth the visionary argument that women and men should receive the same education and are moral equals in the eyes of God. One of the most pivotal thinkers of the Enlightenment, she is widely considered to be the first feminist philosopher, and her work strongly influenced the twentieth-century feminist movement.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It has some really good points that are sadly still valid. Yet, she holds the standards of men as the ideal. I realize this is still happening, yet I cannot agree with this position. Men are also not the ideal, although they are certainly the standard for which all human kind is aiming.