Synopsis

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and , Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. ionate 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 for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner.