Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - 9780415227353

Taylor & Francis

This essential guide contributes to the understanding of Wollstonecraft's role in the development of the women's movement and explores her argument in its historical context. > \nMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the founding text of modern feminism. In this sourcebook, Adriana Craciun provides the ideal starting point for students new to Wollstonecraft's revolutionary work, providing carefully focused introductory materials combined with reprinted and newly annotated source documents.\n Key materials in this sourcebook include:\n *letters by Wollstonecraft and important contemporary documents\n *nineteenth-century responses to the text\n *twentieth-century critical readings\n *annotated key passages, cross-referenced to critical texts\n *suggestions for further reading.\n This is the essential guide to a key literary and political text. > Introduction 1: Contexts, Contextual Overview, Chronology, Contemporary Documents: Sources of A Vindicati.