This is one of the 12 Books That Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit. Feminist scholars and activists have cited both her philosophical ideas and personal struggles as important influences in their work. As a result, she was mostly self-taught something she was both proud of and at times bothered by.
Due to her father’s gambling and drinking, her middle-class family had to move frequently, and Wollstonecraft’s education was neglected. Her early advocacy of women’s equality and her attacks on conventional femininity and the degradation of women presaged the later emergence of the feminist political movement. Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759 in London.
Today, Wollstonecraft is considered a foundational thinker in feminist philosophy. She suggested that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagined a social order founded on reason. Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 Wollstonecraft, Mary Mary Wollstonecraft, , 1759-1797 VIAF ID: 51697482 ( Personal ). Librivox recording of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft.
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