false 224387 50 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, <I>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</I> 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&#151;Walpole called her &#147;a hyena in petticoats&#148;&#151;yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism. 1938850 book 1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics) total:999|5:241|4:393|3:278|2:73|1:14| 999 3771 1549 59 5 1 false false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 22:04:27 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 09:40:21 -0700 2009
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