{"product_id":"a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman","title":"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003eHarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e'My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of revolution, when fundamental social upheaval was reshaping France and America, writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft made an impassioned argument for women to have a place in this new world. Her demands laid out in this 1792 essay, to treat women as human beings deserving of a rational education, self-determination and equal rights alongside men, laid the foundation for modern feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWollstonecraft has been admired and loathed: called a 'hyena in petticoats' by Horace Walpole and an inspiration to writers and feminists such as George Eliot and Millicent Fawcett. \u003cem\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/em\u003e is a key text to understand the making of the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50010187301114,"sku":"9780008663940","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_affd7e3a-4883-44d2-9619-4f69254ac505.jpg?v=1786130789","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}