A vindication of the rights of woman
(2013)
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Naxos Audiobooks, 2013
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 24 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781843799931 MWT11529655, 1843799936 11529655
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Fiona Shaw, Jonathon Keeble
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
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