Mary Wollstonecraft

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Impact and significance

Her argument challenged education designed mainly to make women pleasing to men and became a major reference in later debates about women's rights.

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Works in the archive

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)

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Sources and access

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Project Gutenberg edition
• Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. J. Johnson, 1792.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.

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