A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Online Library of Liberty
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. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (London: J. Johnson, 1792). The text is in the public domain. Contents Find Cite Page View Settings JUMP TO PART I Mary Wollstonecraft Having read with great pleasure a pamphlet which you have lately published.b I dedicate this volume to you; to induce you to reconsider the subject, and maturely weigh what I have advanced respecting the rights of woman and national education: and I call with the firm tone of humanity; for my arguments, Sir, are dictated by a disinterested spirit–I plead for my sex–not for myself.c Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue–and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to liv
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