A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

2020/02/26 by Mary Wollstonecraft
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #American Constitutional Law and Politics #Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment

paper · doi:10.12987/9780300207040

openalex publication_date 2020/02/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

Mary Wollstonecraft’s visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women’s rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking feminist argument includes illuminating essays by leading scholars that highlight the author’s significant contributions to modern political philosophy, making a powerful case for her as one of the most substantive political thinkers of the Enlightenment era. No other scholarly work to date has examined as closely both the ideological moorings and the enduring legacy of Wollstonecraft’s courageous discourse.

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