This edition features a shrewd, annotated abridgment of Mary
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
accompanied by an array of texts that help situate the Vindication
in its political, historical, and intellectual contexts. Included
are key selections from Wollstonecraft's other writings; from
closely related works by Burke, Paine, Godwin, Rousseau, Macaulay,
Talleyrand, and Brockden Brown; and from the 1789 Declaration of
the Rights of Man and Citizen and de Gouges' Declaration of the
Rights of Woman and Female Citizen (1791).