{"product_id":"collins-classics-a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman","title":"Collins Classics - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008663940\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of revolution, when fundamental social upheaval was reshaping France and America, writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft made an impassioned argument for women to have a place in this new world. Her demands laid out in this 1792 essay, to treat women as human beings deserving of a rational education, self-determination and equal rights alongside men, laid the foundation for modern feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWollstonecraft has been admired and loathed: called a ‘hyena in petticoats’ by Horace Walpole and an inspiration to writers and feminists such as George Eliot and Millicent Fawcett. \u003cem\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/em\u003e is a key text to understand the making of the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HARPERCOLLINS PUB","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41622945104005,"sku":"PR404203","price":20.2,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNY2NPSKLZBR.jpg?v=1778182908","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/collins-classics-a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}