Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.The Mummy! or, A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century.Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus.New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future.Jane Austen & the Rise of Feminism: Women Writers As Agents of Change Feminist scholars revived serious interest in her work in the 1970s, and now Wollstonecraft is viewed as having an important role in early feminism and Enlightenment philosophy.Ī version of this text has been digitized and is available through the Internet Archive.Įngaging Male Writers, Disputing MisogynyĪ Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects 36. Doing so tarnished Wollstonecraft’s reputation as a philosopher for centuries. His text revealed Wollstonecraft’s worst moments, including her other, illegitimate daughter and multiple suicide attempts. In Wollstonecraft’s time, the text led to a conservative backlash, with Horace Walpole famously calling her a “hyena in petticoats.” The controversy only increased after Wollstonecraft’s death when her husband, William Godwin (with whom she had daughter and Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) published a well-meaning but ill-advised memoir of her.
Wollstonecraft rails against excessive sensibility in women, contending that dramatic emotional reactions hold women back.
She notes that education would help women become more productive members of society while also making them more successful wives and mothers. Wollstonecraft, a philosopher and radical during the age of the French Revolution, argues that women are not naturally inferior to men but only seem so due to their lack of education.
A Vindication is one of the earliest and most well-known feminist treatises (first edition on display).
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