A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Composed in 1790, Mary Wollstonecrafts seminal feminist tractA Vindication of the Rights of Womanbroke new ground in its demand for womens education.A Vindicationremains one of historys most important and elegant broadsides against sexual oppression. In her introduction, renowned socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham casts Wollstonecrafts life and work in a new light.

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"A fascinating, and entertaining, read."--Diva

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Sheila Rowbotham, who helped start the womens liberation movement in Britain, is known internationally as a historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the groundbreaking books Women, Resistance and Revolution; Womans Consciousness, Mans World; and Hidden from History. Her later works include Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties and Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century. Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797) first achieved fame for her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she extended the radical idea of the rights of man to women and laid the groundwork for modern feminism.