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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book is way too hard to read. It is reputed to be one of the most important books ever written, but I simply could not get through it. The language is extremely convoluted and reads as though it has been written for the chardonnay set. It would be difficult for the average layperson to read. I have been reading this book for months and I am not even half-way through. I think now is the time to give up! (  )1   fairy-whispers | Dec 4, 2008 |  I do not know how anyone can give this book a less than 5 star rating. This is the first feminist monograph and it is eloquant and easy to read. This is a classic, a must read and must own for anyone who is interested in women's studes, education, and feminism. I loved this book. And at the end there is a little section where scholars debate the book. I highly recommend this to everyone. I absolute loved it. (  ) Angelic55blonde | Sep 1, 2008 | link: http://eska-rina.livejournal.com/4157... (  ) Mry | May 17, 2008 | Two chapters from A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN from the founder member of the modern feminist movement. The next book of this kind,Germaine Greer's THE FEMALE EUNUCH,would not be published for another 200 years. antimuzak | Apr 28, 2007 | Whatever other people say about its eloquence, I will have to admit I found it hard going. Wollstonecraft's writing style is very convoluted and overblown. She clearly wrote it in a passion. Try her "Letters from Sweden", though, they are great. puabi | Jun 16, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0141441259, 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 femininity and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and the call for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft’s work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage—Walpole called her “a hyena in petticoats”—yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:03 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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