A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

by Mary Wollstonecraft

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"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft is a feminist essay written in 1792. Wollstonecraft argues that women deserve rational education and fundamental rights equal to men. Responding to eighteenth-century theorists who advocated only domestic education for women, she challenges the view of women as ornaments or property.

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