The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children''s book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This Guidebook introduces:

• Wollstonecraft-s life and the background to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• The ideas and text of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Wollstonecraft-s enduring influence in philosophy and our contemporary intellectual life

It is ideal for anyone coming to Wollstonecraft-s classic text for the first time and anyone interested in the origins of feminist thought.