{"title":"Mary Wollstonecraft","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman","title":"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a landmark of political and philosophical writing, composed in the ferment of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Challenging the assumptions that confined women to ornamental roles and denied them intellectual independence, Wollstonecraft argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but are made so by an education designed to cultivate beauty and obedience rather than reason. Addressing the philosophers, educators and social conventions of her time, she makes the case for equal education and for women’s place as rational, independent members of society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePassionate, incisive and often sharply satirical, the book reaches beyond a plea for individual advancement to question the foundations of marriage, family life, social hierarchy and political citizenship. Wollstonecraft insists that virtue and reason cannot be divided by sex, and that a more just society depends upon the intellectual and moral freedom of women. One of the foundational works of modern feminist thought, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e remains remarkable for the force of its arguments and its refusal to accept inherited inequalities as natural.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Mary Wollstonecraft, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The central text of feminism from her time to our own.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Ellen Moers, The New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64193262944586,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"mary-and-the-wrongs-of-woman","title":"Mary and The Wrongs of Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1788 and 1798 respectively, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMary: A Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e bring together the two novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, offering a revealing portrait of her development as a writer and radical thinker. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMary\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a young woman is forced into a loveless marriage and seeks fulfilment through friendship, feeling and a life of her own choosing. In the unfinished \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Wrongs of Woman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, written at the end of Wollstonecraft’s life and published posthumously, Maria is imprisoned in an asylum by her husband and separated from her child; through her story, and that of Jemima, a fellow sufferer, Wollstonecraft exposes the legal and social structures that leave women vulnerable to male power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTogether, the novels trace a movement from the language of sensibility towards a more urgent and openly political examination of women’s lives. Love, friendship, marriage, motherhood and personal freedom are explored not as private matters alone, but as questions shaped by law, money and social convention. Less widely read than \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, these works reveal Wollstonecraft’s imaginative range and her use of fiction as a means of social criticism, making this pairing an especially valuable encounter with a writer whose literary achievement extends far beyond her best-known treatise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“When her husband would take her hand, or mention any thing like love, she would instantly feel a sickness, a faintness at her heart.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Mary Wollstonecraft, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMary: A Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Wrongs of Woman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A work touched with originality and passion.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Ellen Moers, The New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64193284178250,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/collections\/mary-wollstonecraft.oembed","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}