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.