The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books) - Softcover

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Berges, Sandrine

 
9780415674140: The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 041567414X ISBN 13: 9780415674140
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This Guidebook introduces:

  • Wollstonecraft’s life and the background to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • The ideas and text of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • Wollstonecraft’s enduring influence in philosophy and our contemporary intellectual life

It is ideal for anyone coming to Wollstonecraft’s classic text for the first time and anyone interested in the origins of feminist thought.

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About the Author

Sandrine Berges is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bilkent, Turkey.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041567414X
ISBN 13 
9780415674140
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
208

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