“She was the first woman to articulate publicly a request for women’s suffrage and coequal education… Although Wollstonecraft is best known as a feminist thinker, her philosophies are not limited to women’s issues… Wollstonecraft advocates liberty and equality for all humanity. It was a rational plea for a rational basis to the relation between the sexes… Its chief object was to show that women were not the playthings of men but ought to be their equal partners, which they could be only if they were educated in the same way” (PMM 242). Vindication of the Rights of Woman was written in a “plain and direct style, and it was this as well as the idea of writing a book on the subject at all, which caused the outcry that ensued… she argued for equality of education for both sexes… and co-education. In disagreement with Rousseau… Wollstonecraft urged ‘rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience” ( Legacies of Genius 64). The central theme of the work on women’s rights was that they should be educated to carry a responsibility in society equal to that of men. “Wollstonecraft’s major work caused an outcry when it was published and is hailed as a cornerstone of feminism…. Volume I was the only volume published, scarce in contemporary tree calf. Octavo, contemporary full brown tree calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down, original red morocco spine label and marbled endpapers preserved.įirst edition of this classic work on freedom, equality, and education. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. “LIBERTY AND EQUALITY FOR ALL HUMANITY”: 1792 FIRST EDITION OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT’S LANDMARK VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN IN CONTEMPORARY TREE CALF
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