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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Wollstonecraft: A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men And A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman And Hints by Mary Wollstonecraft , Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli
Mary Wollstonecraft, often described as the first major feminist, is remembered principally as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792, and there has been a tendency to view her most famous work in isolation. Yet Wollstonecrafts pronouncements about women grew out of her reflections about men, and her views on the female sex constituted an integral part of a wider moral and political critique of her times which she first fully formulated in A Vindication of the Rights of Men 1790. Written as a reply to Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790, this is an important text in its own right as well as a necessary tool for understanding Wollstonecrafts later work. This edition brings the two texts together and also includes Hints, the notes which Wollstonecraft made towards a second, never completed, volume of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.show more