Description: > Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), author and pioneering feminist, answers Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France in this, her first stirring political pamphlet. In A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), Wollstonecraft refutes Burke's assertions that human liberties are an "entailed inheritance," that the alliance between church and state is necessary for civil order, and that civil authority should be restricted to men "of permanent property." Rather, liberties are rights which all human beings "inherit at their birth, as rational creatures." Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), author and pioneering feminist, answers Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France in this, her first stirring political pamphlet. In A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), Wollstonecraft refutes Burke's assertions that human liberties are an "entailed inheritance," that the alliance between church and state is necessary for civil order, and that civil authority should be restricted to men "of permanent property." Rather, liberties are rights which all human beings "inherit at their birth, as rational creatures." Used Book in Good Condition
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Features: Used Book in Good Condition
Type: Standard
Vintage: No
Book Title: Vindication of the Rights of Men
Number of Pages: 97 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Item Height: 0.3 in
Topic: Europe / France, Human Rights, Women's Studies, Political, Political Freedom
Publication Year: 1996
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History, Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
Item Weight: 5 oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Item Width: 5.5 in
Book Series: Great Books in Philosophy Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
