Revolutions
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft, Sheila Rowbotham
List price £11.99
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781788737326
- Published:
- 12 Nov 2019
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Dimensions:
- 320 pages - 198 x 129 x 20mm
- Availability:
- Available
- Series:
- Revolutions
Categories:
Composed in 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft's seminal feminist tract A Vindication of the Rights of Woman broke new ground in its demand for women's education. A Vindication remains one of history's most important and elegant broadsides against sexual oppression. In her introduction, renowned socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham casts Wollstonecraft's life and work in a new light.
A renowned historian introduces Mary Wollestonecraft’s seminal feminist tract
Sheila Rowbotham, who helped start the women's 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; Woman's Consciousness, Man's 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 (1759-1797) 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.