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Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Title page to the first US edition of the Vindications of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Edition used: Broadview
Public domain versions: Wikisource; Bartleby.com

 

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From the publisher’s website: “The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for girls, and included two novels. But her reputation is founded on A Vindication of the Rights of Woman of 1792. This treatise is the first great document of feminism–and is now accepted as a core text in western tradition.”

Faculty: Jill Fellows
Lecture title: “Virtue, Power, and the ‘Hyena in Petticoats'”
Lecture date: March 3, 2014
Theme: Remake/Remodel

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See also Thomas Paine, Rights of Man.

  1. Analyze Austen’s Northanger Abbey using one or two of Wollstonecraft’s arguments in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. You could focus on characters, events, and/or their views of the value of novels.
  2. Mary Wollstonecraft ridicules the “sickly delicacy” of sentimental novels. Why does she do so, and how does this impact her own prose style?
  3. How does Wollstonecraft use the story of Adam and Eve in support of her view? Could one also use this story to object to her view?
  4. Discuss similarities and/or differences between Kant’s arguments in “Conjectural Beginning of Human History” and Wollstonecraft’s arguments in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
  5. Do Paine and Wollstonecraft share the same conception of rights?

 

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