Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792, and is often referred to as the founding text or manifesto of Western feminism. Nineteenth-century American feminists revered its author as their founding mother and read and spoke about her works everywhere. Wollstonecraft’s first major work, The Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790), was a response to Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) by Edmund Burke. Burke was one of many British writers and polemicists who entered the impassioned dialogue on the French Revolution, but his work was particularly exciting to people like Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine for its support of the view that citizens should not rebel against their government in order to