A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft, edited and with an introduction by Eileen Hunt Botting, [editor].

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

357 pages ; 21 cm.

"This edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)highlights Wollstonecraft's contributions to modern political philosophy, especially the idea of women's human rights, alongside the cultural and political contexts that inspired her important feminist arguments. It includes an introduction by Eileen Hunt Botting (the editor) and several new scholarly essays on the philosophical, literary, and political legacies of the Rights of Woman by Ruth Abbey, Eileen Hunt Botting, Norma Clarke, Madeline Cronin, and Virginia Sapiro. A biographical directory, two historical timelines, and comprehensive index complement the essays"-- Provided by publisher.

English

June 09, 2015

Rethinking the western tradition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-331) and index.

Early works.