A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Mary Wollstonecraft, Editions Ducourt, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects"
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08DBZDHTY | EPUB | pages: 185 | 0.3 mb
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08DBZDHTY | EPUB | pages: 185 | 0.3 mb
Wollstonecraft was prompted to write the Rights of Woman after reading Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's 1791 report to the French National Assembly, which stated that women should only receive a domestic education; from her reaction to this specific event, she launched a broad attack against sexual double standards, indicting men for encouraging women to indulge in excessive emotion. Wollstonecraft hurried to complete the work in direct response to ongoing events; she intended to write a more thoughtful second volume but died before completing it.