Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.
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with Mary Shelley
with Lao Tzu, Immanuel Kant, Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Douglas J. Den Uyl, Douglas B. Rasmussen and Doug Bandow
with Tone Brekke and Jon Mee
with William Godwin
