Description
| Product ID: | 9781912127061 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Macat Library |
| Title: | An Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
| Authors: | Author: Ruth Scobie |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Regional / International studies, Philosophy, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Study and learning skills: general, Political science and theory, Regional studies, Philosophy, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Study & learning skills: general, Political science & theory |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Wollstonecraft’s 1792 work sets out all the chief principles of feminist thought developed by later feminist writers and activists. Wollstonecraft asserts that the differences between the sexes are the result of nurture, not nature, and outlines a theory for the equal education of girls and boys. Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. Often considered to be the earliest widely-circulated work of feminism, the book is a powerful example of what can be achieved by creative thinkers – people who refuse to be bound by the standard ways of thinking, or to see things through the same lenses that everyone else uses. In the case of the Vindication, Wollstonecraft’s independent thinking went directly against the standard assumptions of the age regarding women. During the seventeenth century and earlier, it was an entirely standard point of view to consider women as, largely speaking, uneducable. They were widely considered to be men’s inferiors, incapable of rational thought. They not only did not need a rational education – it was assumed that they could not benefit from one. Wollstonecraft, in contrast, argued that women’s apparent triviality was a direct consequence of society failing to educate them. If they were not men’s equals, it was the fault of a society that refused to treat them as such. So radical was her message that it would take until the 20th century for her views to become truly accepted. |
| Imprint Name: | Macat International Limited |
| Publisher Name: | Macat International Limited |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-07-13 |
