The Rights of Women

The Rights of Women
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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages : 475
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ISBN-10 : 9780268200800
ISBN-13 : 0268200807
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Book Synopsis The Rights of Women by : Erika Bachiochi

Download or read book The Rights of Women written by Erika Bachiochi and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erika Bachiochi offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others. In The Rights of Women, Erika Bachiochi explores the development of feminist thought in the United States. Inspired by the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Bachiochi presents the intellectual history of a lost vision of women’s rights, seamlessly weaving philosophical insight, biographical portraits, and constitutional law to showcase the once predominant view that our rights properly rest upon our concrete responsibilities to God, self, family, and community. Bachiochi proposes a philosophical and legal framework for rights that builds on the communitarian tradition of feminist thought as seen in the work of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Drawing on the insight of prominent figures such as Sarah Grimké, Frances Willard, Florence Kelley, Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Mary Ann Glendon, this book is unique in its treatment of the moral roots of women’s rights in America and its critique of the movement’s current trajectory. The Rights of Women provides a synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern political insight that locates the family’s vital work at the very center of personal and political self-government. Bachiochi demonstrates that when rights are properly understood as a civil and political apparatus born of the natural duties we owe to one another, they make more visible our personal responsibilities and more viable our common life together. This smart and sophisticated application of Wollstonecraft’s thought will serve as a guide for how we might better value the culturally essential work of the home and thereby promote authentic personal and political freedom. The Rights of Women will interest students and scholars of political theory, gender and women’s studies, constitutional law, and all readers interested in women’s rights.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 0760754942
ISBN-13 : 9780760754948
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by : Barnes & Noble

Download or read book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman written by Barnes & Noble and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Wollstonecrafts work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrageWalpole called her a hyena in petticoatsyet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.

The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9781136205279
ISBN-13 : 1136205276
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by : Sandrine Berges

Download or read book The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman written by Sandrine Berges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This Guidebook introduces: Wollstonecraft’s life and the background to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman The ideas and text of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft’s enduring influence in philosophy and our contemporary intellectual life It is ideal for anyone coming to Wollstonecraft’s classic text for the first time and anyone interested in the origins of feminist thought.

A Vindication of the Rights of Men

A Vindication of the Rights of Men
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Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages : 88
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ISBN-10 : 9783849649746
ISBN-13 : 3849649741
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Vindication of the Rights of Men by : Mary Wollstonecraft

Download or read book A Vindication of the Rights of Men written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1790 came that "extraordinary outburst of passionate intelligence," Mary Wollstonecraft's reply to Edmund Burke's attack on the principles of the French Revolution entitled a "Vindication of the Rights of Men." In this pamphlet she held up to scorn Burke's defence of monarch and nobility, his merciless sentimentality. "It is one of the most dashing political polemics in the language," Mr. Taylor writes enthusiastically, "and has not had the attention it deserves. . . . For sheer virility and grip of her verbal instruments it is probably the finest of her works. Some of her sentences have the quality of a sword-edge, and they flash with the rapidity of a practised duellist. It was written at a white heat of indignation; yet it is altogether typical of the writer that, in the midst of the work, quite suddenly, she had one of her fits of callousness and morbid temper, and declared she would not go on. With great skill Johnson persuaded her to take it up again; and with equal suddenness her eagerness returned, and the book was finished and published before any one else could answer Burke."

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 0521789524
ISBN-13 : 9780521789523
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft by : Claudia L. Johnson

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft written by Claudia L. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collected volume which addresses all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career.

The Declaration of the Rights of Women

The Declaration of the Rights of Women
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9781781575932
ISBN-13 : 1781575932
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Declaration of the Rights of Women by : Olympe de Gouges

Download or read book The Declaration of the Rights of Women written by Olympe de Gouges and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of. An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, and was beheaded two years later, her articulate demands for equality proving too much for their time. Over one hundred and fifty years later, the key statements of her declaration were internationally endorsed by the United Nations in its Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, which in turn went on to be legally recognized by nearly every country in the world. This volume presents both of these key texts along with enlightening and inspiring commentary from a host of powerful women, from Virginia Woolf to Hillary Clinton.

On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship

On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship
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Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Total Pages : 15
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ISBN-10 : 9781528791106
ISBN-13 : 152879110X
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Book Synopsis On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship by : Marquis de Condorcet

Download or read book On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship written by Marquis de Condorcet and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship” is a 1789 essay by French philosopher Nicolas de Condorcet. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (1743–1794), more commonly known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French mathematician and philosopher who espoused equal rights people of all genders and races, a liberal economy, free public instruction, and the importance of a constitutional government. Said to have been the very embodiment of the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, Condorcet died in prison as a result of his attempting to escape French Revolutionary authorities. Within this essay, he argues that, according to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, rights are universal; and if that is indeed true, then they should apply to all adults—women included. A fascinating example of early feminist literature, “On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship” will greatly appeal to those with an interest in the history of feminism and its most notable proponents. Read & Co. Great Essays is proudly republishing this classic essay now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.