Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the most remarkable books in the history of ideas. A classic of early feminism, it uses what’s wrong with the relationship between men and women to illustrate what’s gone wrong with politics. It’s a story of lust and power, education and revolution. David explores how Wollstonecraft’s radical challenge to the basic ideas of modern politics continues to resonate today.

Free online version of the text:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420

Recommended version to purchase:

https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/wollstonecraft-vindication-rights-men-and-vindication-rights-woman-and-hints?format=PB

Going Deeper:

In Our Time on Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Sylvana Tomaselli, Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020)
Virginia Woolf on Mary Wollstonecraft
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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