Category
The Family. Marriage. Women
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Wollstonecraft first defended the rights of men in response to Burke’s pamphlet on the French Revolution, then turned to the rights of woman a couple of years later. It is one of the key texts of modern feminist thought.
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The Subjection of Women (1878 ed.)
Mill took up the cause of women’s rights in the face of much opposition from his colleagues in Parliament. In addition to his parliamentary speeches on the matter his most extended defense of the right of women to own property and to participate in political life was *The Subjection of Women*.
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