| A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Contributor(s): Wollstonecraft, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 1727490924 ISBN-13: 9781727490923 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $13.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Political Science | Civil Rights - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.42 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.75 lbs) 252 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Having read with great pleasure a pamphlet, which you have lately published, on National Education, I dedicate this volume to you, the first dedication that I have ever written, to induce you to read it with attention; and, because I think that you will understand me, which I do not suppose many pert witlings will, who may ridicule the arguments they are unable to answer. But, sir, I carry my respect for your understanding still farther: so far, that I am confident you will not throw my work aside, and hastily conclude that I am in the wrong because you did not view the subject in the same light yourself. And pardon my frankness, but I must observe, that you treated it in too cursory a manner, contented to consider it as it had been considered formerly, when the rights of man, not to advert to woman, were trampled on as chimerical. I call upon you, therefore, now to weigh what I have advanced respecting the rights of woman, and national education; and I call with the firm tone of humanity. For my arguments, sir, are dictated by a disinterested spirit: I plead for my sex, not for myself. Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. |