Author : Enit Karafili Steiner
Release : 2014-01-05
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 381/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Called to Civil Existence by : Enit Karafili Steiner
Download or read book Called to Civil Existence written by Enit Karafili Steiner. This book was released on 2014-01-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), a continuation of her earlier Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), was the first feminist treatise to emerge within a broader context of liberationist human rights theory. Rights of Woman remains, however, relevant and instructive. The essays included here show that Wollstonecraft’s legacy is still with us today as the balancing act between a society where sexual distinction translates into gender prejudice and a utopian order where sexual difference ceases to be a structuring element of social, economic and political bias. Engaging Wollstonecraft's famous argument from a variety of critical perspectives, a range of contemporary scholars offer new trajectories in this volume for the study of Wollstonecraft's historic work and its relevance to our time.