Free the nipple, etc.

A tedious read so far. I've started this book several times. I don't know if I will ever get though it or if it's worth the effort. It certainly would expand my vocabulary.

It is a dificult read due to the old timey language, however it has very progressive ideas for the time. How controversial could a book be when it asks for the bare minimum for women and the working class? It is still too conservative for my taste, but I like the thinking: "if women must be virtuous, the men should be too", I think it is a great read to start with feminism.

It is a dificult read due to the old timey language, however it has very progressive ideas for the time. How controversial could a book be when it asks for the bare minimum for women and the working class? It is still too conservative for my taste, but I like the thinking: "if women must be virtuous, the men should be too", I think it is a great read to start with feminism.

It is a dificult read due to the old timey language, however it has very progressive ideas for the time. How controversial could a book be when it asks for the bare minimum for women and the working class? It is still too conservative for my taste, but I like the thinking: "if women must be virtuous, the men should be too", I think it is a great read to start with feminism.

It was alright.Pretty tricky to read being written in 1792 and written rather erratically and inconcisely with a metaphysical tone I admit I didn't or couldn't always follow. Clearly there have been some leaps in women's rights since this publication, so some, but not all, of the views here I believe to be slightly outdated with respect to modern Western society.I found these arguments (Chapter 5 of AVotRoW onwards) slightly repetitive to read, despite their rather pleasantly vivacious syntax. N...

She is smart, fun, and feisty!

Ok, so I'm not rating this book because I kinda didn't understand some points of it. I wasn't sure the author was saying women should be treated equally so they could fit better into their "natural" roles as mothers and wives or if women should have the same rights to employment and education so they could be independent. I think she was saying both, but it seemed contraditory to me.In general, I agree with her views although I disagree that education is the source of rationality. It's not educa...

Great book.

Beautifully written and argued pamphlets on the rights of men and women. This was a women so ahead of the progress of her time. She knew the capacity women had for intelligence and yet daily had to watch other women trade that capacity away on the goal of being nothing more then enamored by men. Not really even loved because, as she implies, who can love for very long a creature so superficial, helpless and childish. She watched women of her class trade the fight for education for women for fash...

Whereas I taught this book for a class this semester, it really spoke to me more than it ever had before with great insights.

Whereas I taught this book for a class this semester, it really spoke to me more than it ever had before with great insights.

At the moment, what has struck me the most about Wollstonecraft's Vindications is the following excerpt:"I am aware of an obvious inference: - from every quarter have I heard exclamations against masculine women; but where are they to be found? If by this appellation men mean to inveigh against their ardour in hunting, shooting, and gaming, I shall most cordially join in the cry; but if it be against the imitation of manly virtues, or, more properly speaking, the attainment of those talent and v...

Vindication of the Rights of Man, Wollstonecraft's lesser known essay, was a polemical response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, which in itself was a critical response to the political motivations behind the French Revolution. The central issues that Wollstonecraft takes with Burke's book is the way in which it seems to advocate inequality, further oligarchic control, and dismiss the popular reason of the Enlightenment as an irrational and reckless response to (what Bu...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is such a profoundly weird book. It's not so much a feminist work as it is pre-feminist or proto-feminist. She largely defers to the dominant notion that women are inferior to men - yet there are these odd flashes where she explicitly declines to say anything further on an issue related to the relative equality of women in various capacities, and you can almost feel her biting back an angry feminist rant that simply isn't politic yet. She compares the Divine

written at the end of the 1700's still suprisingly relevent to todays world.

200 years before her time. What a voice she could have been for right now!

Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Mary Wollstonecraft (1995)

Re: A Vindication of the Rights of Men. (I previously read A Vindication of the Rights of Women.) This work, from 1790, is a response to Edmund Burke's condemnation of the French Revolution against the "legitimate" government of the French monarchy. He argues that long tradition grants it its legitimacy. Wollstonecraft views hereditary monarchies, the power and wealth of the nobility and the church, the customs of slavery, India's caste system, and the oppression of women as evidence that tradit...

Re: A Vindication of the Rights of Men. (I previously read A Vindication of the Rights of Women.) This work, from 1790, is a response to Edmund Burke's condemnation of the French Revolution against the "legitimate" government of the French monarchy. He argues that long tradition grants it its legitimacy. Wollstonecraft views hereditary monarchies, the power and wealth of the nobility and the church, the customs of slavery, India's caste system, and the oppression of women as evidence that tradit...