A vindication of the rights of men ; A vindication of the rights of woman ; An historical and moral view of the French Revolution

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A vindication of the rights of men ; A vindication of the rights of woman ; An historical and moral view of the French Revolution / Mary Wollstonecraft ; [edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Todd].

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 (Author). Todd, Janet, 1942- (Added Author).

Summary:

"This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft as they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s." "It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women's involvement in a nation's political and social life and her growing awareness of the relationship between politics and economics, political institutions and the individual." "In personal terms, the works show her struggling with a belief in the perfectibility of human nature through rational education, a doctrine that appeared weaker to her under the onslaught of her own miserable experience and of the revolutionary massacres." --Book Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780199555468
ISBN: 019955546X
Physical Description: xxxvi, 413 pages ; 20 cm.
Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Originally published: Political writings. London : Pickering, 1993.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: Machine generated contents note: chronology of Mary Wollstonecraft -- vindication of the rights of men -- vindication of the rights of woman.