# A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Titulus primae editionis Americanae *Vindicationis mulieris*
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (Iurum mulieris vindicatio: cum animadversionibus de rebus politicis moralibusque), a scriptrice Britannica Maria Wollstonecraft scripta, anno 1792 edita, est unum ex primis operibus philosophiae feministicae, responsum philosophis saeculi XVIII qui opinabantur mulieres disciplinam plenam non mereri. Wollstonecraft contendet mulieres esse societati civili necessarias, quia pueros educant et comites sunt maritis. Itaque mulieres, pro ornamentis vel possessionibus matrionialibus, esse homines, qui eadem iura ac viri merentur.

Auctor ad *Iura mulieris* scribenda inducta est postquam Talleyrandi renuntiationem ad Conventum constituentem populi Francici legit, quae affirmavit mulieres educationem tantum domesticam accipere debere. Wollstonecraft commentario de hoc libello usa est ad petitionem latam faciendam contra normas duales inter viros et mulieres et ad viros accusandos qui mulieres hortabantur ut nimiis animi motibus indulgerent. *Iura mulieris* festinanter scripsit, ut recta casibus in motu responderet; volebat volumen secundum consideratius scribere, sed libro non perfecto mortua est.

Wollstonecraft, quamquam aequalitatem inter sexus certis in partibus vitae poscit, ut in moribus, expresse non confirmat viros et mulieres esse aequos. Haec ambiguitatis causa difficile est eam inter feministas hodiernas annumerare, praesertim quia vocabulum *feminismus* non praesto erat. *Iura mulieris* anno editionis 1792 bene recepta est, sed fama auctoris postea saeculo XIX afflicta est postquam Gulielmus Godwin memorias edidit, de vita scripticis revelans singula quae ignominiosa habebantur.

## Bibliographia

### Editiones recentes

* Wollstonecraft, Mary. *The Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft*. Ed. Janet Todd and Marilyn Butler. 7 vols. London: William Pickering, 1989. ISBN 0-8147-9225-1.
* Wollstonecraft, Mary. *The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman.* Eds. D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf. Toronto: Broadview Literary Texts, 1997. ISBN 1-55111-088-1
* Wollstonecraft, Mary. *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman*. Ed. Miriam Brody Kramnick. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2004. ISBN 0-14-144125-9.
* Wollstonecraft, Mary. *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman*. Ed. Deidre Shauna Lynch. 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2009. ISBN 0-393-92974-4.
* Wollstonecraft, Mary. *A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman*. Ed. Sylvana Tomaselli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-43633-8.

#### Sententiae contemporaneae

* *Analytical Review* 12 (1792): 241–249; 13 (1792): 418–489.
* *Christian Miscellany* 1 (1792): 209–212.
* *Critical Review* New Series 4 (1792): 389–398; 5 (1792): 132–141.
* *General Magazine and Imperial Review* 6.2 (1792): 187–191.
* *Literary Magazine and British Review* 8 (1792); 133–139.
* *Monthly Review* New Series 8 (1792): 198–209.
* *New Annual Register* 13 (1792): 298.
* *New-York Magazine* 4 (1793): 77–81.
* *Scots Magazine* 54 (1792): 284–290.
* *Sentimental and Masonic Magazine* 1 (1792): 63–72.
* *Town and Country Magazine* 24 (1792): 279.

### Fontes secundarii

* Barker-Benfield, G.J. *The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0-226-03714-2.
* Gordon, Lyndall. *Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft*. Great Britain: Virago, 2005. ISBN 1-84408-141-9.
* Janes, R.M. "On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". *Journal of the History of Ideas* 39 (1978): 293–302.
* Johnson, Claudia L. *Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN 0-226-40184-7.
* Jones, Chris. "Mary Wollstonecraft's *Vindications* and their political tradition". *The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft*. Ed. Claudia L. Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-78952-4.
* Kaplan, Cora. "Mary Wollstonecraft's reception and legacies". *The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft*. Ed. Claudia L. Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-78952-4.
* Kaplan, Cora. "Pandora's Box: Subjectivity, Class and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism". *Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism*. London: Verso, 1986. ISBN 0-86091-151-9.
* Kaplan, Cora. "Wild Nights: Pleasure/Sexuality/Feminism". *Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism*. London: Verso, 1986. ISBN 0-86091-151-9.
* Kelly, Gary. *Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft*. New York: St. Martin's, 1992. ISBN 0-312-12904-1.
* Mellor, Anne K. "Mary Wollstonecraft's *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman* and the women writers of her day". *The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft*. Ed. Claudia L. Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-78952-4.
* Poovey, Mary. *The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. ISBN 0-226-67528-9.
* Sapiro, Virginia. *A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0-226-73491-9.
* Sunstein, Emily W. *A Different Face: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft*. New York: Harper and Row, 1975. ISBN 0-06-014201-4.
* Taylor, Barbara. *Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-521-66144-7.
* Todd, Janet. *Sensibility: An introduction*. London: Methuen, 1986. ISBN 0-416-37720-3.
* Wardle, Ralph M. *Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography*. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1951.

## Nexus externi

* 1796 editio *Rights of Woman* in Google Books
* *Rights of Woman* in Project Gutenberg
* Versio phonographica apud LibriVox
* Mary Wollstonecraft: A 'Speculative and Dissenting Spirit', Janet Todd, apud www.bbc.co.uk
* *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects* apud Bibliotheca Congressus