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Mary Wollstonecraft,often described as the first major feninist,is remenbered principally as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792),and there has been a tendency to view her most famous work in islation.Yet Wollstonecraft's pronouncenments atour women grew out of her reflections about men,and her views on the female sex constituted an integral part of a wider moral and politcal critique of her times which she first fully fornulated in a wider moral and political critique of her times which she first fully formulated in A Vindication of the Rithts of Men(1790),Written as a reply to Edmund Burke's Refleciouns on the Revoltion in France(1790),this is an inportant text in its own right as well as a necessary tool for understanding Wollstonecraft's later work.This edition brings the two texts togeher and also includes Hints,the notes which Wollstonecraft made towards a second,never completed,volune of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
SYLVANATOMASELLI is an intellectual historian specializing in the Enlightenment,She is currently writing a study of Sedduction and Chvilisation:An Enlighteent Perwpetive on the History of Wonmen,to be published by Weidenfeld.