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Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft''s work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - Walpole called her ''a hyena in petticoats'' - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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    A Paperback / softback by Mary Wollstonecraft, Miriam Brody, Miriam Brody

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 28 October 2004
      ISBN-13 9780141441252
      978-0141441252
      ISBN-10 0141441259
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      Biography Essays Politics, Philosophy & Society Civics and citizenship Feminism and feminist theory

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      Book Synopsis
      Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft''s work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - Walpole called her ''a hyena in petticoats'' - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.

      Trade Review
      "We hear [Mary Wollstonecraft's] voice and trace her influence even now among the living."

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