A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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• The mode of education today (students going to school during the day and returning home after school) owes a great deal to this work of Wollstonecraft's. In her words this is a combination of private and public schooling for both girls and boys.

  It is not controversial to ask for gender equality to ... (continue)

  The mode of education today (students going to school during the day and returning home after school) owes a great deal to this work of Wollstonecraft's. In her words this is a combination of private and public schooling for both girls and boys.

  It is not controversial to ask for gender equality today (in most part of the world - am I being too huge an optimist to say that?), so one may not need to borrow Wollstonecraft's authority to make one's voice louder. However, I find the work still largely relevant despite the improvement made in the scene of gender equality since the publication of the work. As far as I observe, 'amiable weakness' is still skilfully cultivated and displayed by some women and that certainly satisfies guy's desire for the recognition of their manhood.

  It is nevertheless unfair to stop there by saying this is only a work on gender relationship because it is not. It has other implications such as that on authoritarianism and class difference.

  Very inspirational, both the work and the author herself.

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  [This book] was published in 1792 and was received with a mixture of outrage and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French Revolutions, [the author] took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women....For(her) all aspects of women’s existence were in ... (continue)

  [This book] was published in 1792 and was received with a mixture of outrage and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French Revolutions, [the author] took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women....For(her) all aspects of women’s existence were interrelated, and any effective reform depended on a redistribution of political and economic power....it is a tribute to her forceful insight that modern feminists are finally returning to the arguments so passionately expressed in this remarkable book.

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  Your Sources said on Aug 15, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 224 Pages
• Edition: 2
• ISBN-10: 0486290360
• ISBN-13: 9780486290362
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Pub date: Jul 03, 1996
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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