A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Shelley

Overview

Wollstonecraft put the rights of women in the context of social optimism; she argues that the minds of women are no different from the minds of men, but that men and women differ only in their bodies. As a result, she affirms universal human rights--females are in all the most important aspects the same as males, possessing the same souls, the same mental capacities and thus the same human rights. Therefore, she argues that a system based on one's sex's dependence is demeaning to everyone

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149406760
Publisher:	Halcyon Press Ltd.
Publication date:	05/02/2014
Series:	Halcyon Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	198 KB

About the Author

Mary Shelley (n�e Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1797-1851) was a British novelist and writer. Best known for FRANKENSTEIN, she also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.