A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Penguin Classics by Mary Wollstonecraft

26/09/2019 9h 42min
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Penguin Classics by Mary Wollstonecraft

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Title: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Penguin Classics
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Narrator: Jeanette Winterson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Release date: September 26, 2019
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by celebrated British novelist Jeanette Winterson, CBE. This definitive recording includes an introduction to the audio edition written and performed by Jeanette Winterson. Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft's work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - one critic called her 'a hyena in petticoats' - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.