A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft torrent

Category: Classic, Lecture, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: 1700's Civil Rights And Liberties Feminist
Written by Mary Wollstonecraft
Read by Jeanette Winterson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 80 Kbps
Unabridged
This Penguin Classic recording is performed by celebrated British novelist Jeanette Winterson, with an introduction written by Winterson.
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate 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. Mary Wollstonecraft’s work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - one critic called her ‘a hyena in petticoats’ - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.
Audio Release Date:
September 26 2019
9 hrs and 41 mins


This Penguin Classic recording is performed by celebrated British novelist Jeanette Winterson, with an introduction written by Winterson.

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate 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. Mary Wollstonecraft’s work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - one critic called her ‘a hyena in petticoats’ - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.

Audio Release Date:
September 26 2019

9 hrs and 41 mins