A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Penguin Classics Audiobook (Free)

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This Penguin Classic is conducted by celebrated British novelist Jeanette Winterson, CBE. This definitive documenting includes an launch towards the audio edition written and performed by Jeanette Winterson.

Writing in an age when the call for the privileges of man acquired brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her have declaration of female self-reliance in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication from the Rights of Girl attacked the prevailing watch of docile, decorative femininity, and rather organized the concepts of emancipation: an equal education for women and boys, an end to prejudice, as well as for women to become defined by their career, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft’s function was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage – one critic called her ‘a hyena in petticoats’ – however it founded her as the mom of contemporary feminism.