A vindication of the rights of men
By: Mary Wollstonecraft.
Series: Great books in philosophy
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.; Human rights.; Liberty.; Women's rights -- Great Britain.; Women -- Education -- Great Britain.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes.
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 on 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."
Notes: Originally published: London : J. Johnson, 1790.