num_pages: 92
description: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), author and pioneering feminist, answers Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" in this, her first stirring political pamphlet. In "A Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790), Wollstonecraft refutes Burke's assertions that human liberties are an "entailed inheritance," that the alliance between church and state is necessary for civil order, and that civil authority should be restricted to men "of permanent property." Rather, liberties are rights which all human beings "inherit at their birth, as rational creatures".
language: English
title: A Vindication of the Rights of men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
titlecomplete: A Vindication of the Rights of men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke (Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft)
genres: Sociology, History, Classics, School, Feminism, Philosophy, 18th Century, Politics, French Revolution, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 164
publisher: Classic Books