A Vindication of the Rights of Men/A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

A Vindication of the Rights of Men/A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its

Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback / softback)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

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

Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Pevná vazba)

An Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Scobie Ruth)(Paperback)

Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. Often considered to be the earliest widely-circulated work of feminism, the book is a powerful example of what can be achieved by creative thinkers - people who

Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Abridged, with Related Texts (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Mary Wollstoncraft's passionate declaration of female independence shattered the stereotype of docile, decorative womanhood, anticipated a new era of equality and established her as the founder of modern

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and expanded Third Edition is again based on the 1792 second-edition text and is accompanied by revised and

The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Berges Sandrine)(Paperback)

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

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

'It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.' --Mary Wollstonecraft

Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback / softback)

One of the earliest works of feminist philosophy Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Vintage Feminism Short Edition (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

First published in 1792, this book was written in a spirit of outrage and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to

The Feminist Papers: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Part of the Gibbs Smith Women's Voices series: A collection of literary voices written by, and for, extraordinary women--to encourage, challenge, and inspire. By the matriarch of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women tackles womens-rights-as-human-rights decades before

Mary and the Wrongs of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men. They are expressed here in two novels in which heroines have to rely on their own resources to establish their independence and intellectual development. Strongly

Short Residence in Sweden & Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman' (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Includes a travel book and a biography of its

Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre (Israel Jonathan)(Paperback)

How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have

An Analysis of Seyla Benhabib's the Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents and Citizens (Ozcelik Burcu)(Paperback)

In The Rights of Others, Benhabib argues that the transnational movement of people across the globe has brought to the fore fundamental dilemmas facing liberal democracies: tension between a state's commitment to universal human rights, and to its sovereign self-determination and its claims to

A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians - The Shadow Histories, Book One (Parry H. G.)(Paperback / softback)

A genre-defying tale of magic, revolution and the struggle for freedom - perfect for readers of Jonathan Strange & Mr

The Moral Economy of Welfare and Migration: Reconfiguring Rights in Austerity Britain (Morris Lydia)(Paperback)

Britain's coalition government of 2010-2015 ushered in an enduring age of austerity and a 'moral mission' of welfare reform as part of a drive for deficit reduction. Stricter controls were applied to both domestic welfare and international migration and asylum, which were presented as two sides of

The Faith of Our Fathers: A Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ (Gibbons James)(Paperback)

Explains the basic tenets of the Catholic Faith and why we hold them. Delves into the historical background of virtually everything people find hard to understand about our Religion, such as priestly celibacy, sacred images, the Church and the Bible, the primacy of Peter, Communion under one kind,

The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment (Boyd David R.)(Paperback)

The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around the question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law? David Boyd answers this by moving beyond theoretical debates to measure the practical effects of enshrining

The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism (Whyte Jessica)(Paperback)

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society. In the wake of the Second

The Right to Have Rights (Degooyer Stephanie)(Paperback)

Five leading thinkers on the concept of 'rights' in an era of rightlessnessSixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the 'inalienable' Rights of Man--before there can be any specific rights

Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights Studies (Vandenhole Wouter)(Paperback)

Since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) children's rights have assumed a central position in a wide variety of disciplines and policies. This handbook offers an engaging overview of the contemporary research landscape for those people in the theory and practice of