![]() ![]() (Summary from Wikipedia and Alex Foster)īrief Sketch of the life of Mary Wollstonecraft (incl. ![]() This is one of the 12 Books That Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg. Feminist scholars and activists have cited both her philosophical ideas and personal struggles as important influences in their work. Her early advocacy of women's equality and her attacks on conventional femininity and the degradation of women presaged the later emergence of the feminist political movement. The complicated role of religion in Wollstonecraft’s work and time are noteworthy: her own beliefs were, put simply, that all people could pursue virtue, a divine gift, through use of reason. Today, Wollstonecraft is considered a foundational thinker in feminist philosophy. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was her response, offering an alternative mode of educating women to be full citizens in a revolutionary state. She suggested that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagined a social order founded on reason. ![]() Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. Download cover art Download CD case insert A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ![]()
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