Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Published in 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman stands as one of the most electrifying and consequential works in the history of political philosophy — a thunderbolt that struck at the very foundations of Enlightenment-era society and demanded that its promises of reason and liberty be extended to women. Edited by Miriam Kramnick for this Pelican Classics edition, the text presents Wollstonecraft's impassioned argument that women are not inherently inferior to men, but are rendered so by a lack of education, and that society's insistence on cultivating feminine weakness and vanity actively corrupts both women and the social fabric at large. Wollstonecraft argues with ferocious clarity and intellectual rigor, dismantling the patronizing prescriptions of contemporaries such as Rousseau and challenging a culture that prized female compliance over female virtue. Her prose crackles with urgency and moral conviction, making this not merely a historical document but a living, breathing challenge to every age that reads it. Widely regarded as a foundational text of feminist thought, Vindication of the Rights of Woman remains as vital and unsettling today as it was when it first shook the world — a testament to one woman's refusal to be silent.
Author: Wollstonecraft
Format: Paperback
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Published in 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman stands as one of the most electrifying and consequential works in the history of political philosophy — a thunderbolt that struck at the very foundations of Enlightenment-era society and demanded that its promises of reason and liberty be extended to women. Edited by Miriam Kramnick for this Pelican Classics edition, the text presents Wollstonecraft's impassioned argument that women are not inherently inferior to men, but are rendered so by a lack of education, and that society's insistence on cultivating feminine weakness and vanity actively corrupts both women and the social fabric at large. Wollstonecraft argues with ferocious clarity and intellectual rigor, dismantling the patronizing prescriptions of contemporaries such as Rousseau and challenging a culture that prized female compliance over female virtue. Her prose crackles with urgency and moral conviction, making this not merely a historical document but a living, breathing challenge to every age that reads it. Widely regarded as a foundational text of feminist thought, Vindication of the Rights of Woman remains as vital and unsettling today as it was when it first shook the world — a testament to one woman's refusal to be silent.