A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Written in six weeks in 1792, and still the most quotable argument for educating women.
- Listening time
- about 8 h 54 min
- Length
- 83,072 words
- First published
- 1792
- Public domain
- the author died in 1797
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 489 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Thinking It Through
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How it begins.
In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. To clear my way, I must be allowed to ask some plain questions, and the answers will probably appear as unequivocal as the axioms on which reasoning is built; though, when entangled with various motives of action, they are formally contradicted, either by the words or conduct of men. In what does man’s preeminence over the brute creation consist? The answer is as clear as that a half is less than the whole; in Reason.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792
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Also by Mary Wollstonecraft
On the same shelf: Thinking It Through
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