Mary Wollstonecraft

La obra que puso las bases del feminismo moderno. En 1792, en una época en la que la exigencia de los derechos del hombre estaba a la orden del día y que había llevado a Francia y América a la revolucion, Mary Wollstonecraft escribio su propia declaracion de la independencia de las mujeres. Esta obra, escrita con pasion y una voz firme y directa, se rebela contra el ideal docil, dulce y casi decorativo de la feminidad. Asimismo expone los principios de la emancipacion que consisten, fundamentalmente, en la igualdad en la educacion de las niñas y los niños, en acabar con los prejuicios y en el sueño de que las mujeres puedan definirse por su profesion y no por su compañero. Duramente criticada pero tambien admirada por muchos, Mary Wollstonecraft esta considerada la madre del feminismo moderno.

Considerada por muchos la «fundadora» del feminismo, Mary Wollstonecraft defendió en tiempos de la Ilustración el derecho de las mujeres a recibir la misma educación que los hombres y a participar en

La colección «Bebi Edita» arranca con una de las primeras obras de la literatura y filosofía feministas. El primer manifiesto feminista revisado por una de las voces actuales más revolucionarias: Beb

La obra es una crítica apasionada y profunda sobre la sociedad, la política y la moralidad de su tiempo. Wollstonecraft, en su respuesta a un opúsculo de Edmund Burke sobre la Revolución Francesa, cuestiona con una mezcla de sensibilidad y agudeza la hipocresia y las contradicciones de las elites, especialmente en relacion con la nobleza y el clero, cuya riqueza y privilegios considera ilegitimos y perjudiciales. Argumenta que la verdadera felicidad y virtud solo pueden florecer en una sociedad basada en la razon, la igualdad y la justicia, no en la tradicion o la "sensibilidad" superficial. Critica el menosprecio hacia los pobres y la justificacion de la opresion, defendiendo que la compasion y el amor verdadero nacen del entendimiento racional, no de meros impulsos. En esencia, aboga por una reforma radical que priorice el bienestar de todos los hombres y mujeres sobre los intereses creados, despojando a la religion y las instituciones de su "ropaje gotico" para revelar una belleza y moralidad intrinsecas y accesibles para toda la humanidad sin excepcion.

This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women''s involvement in the political and social life of the nation and her growing awareness of the relationship between politics and economics and between political institutions and the individual. In personal terms, the works show her struggling with a belief in the perfectibility of human nature through rational education, a doctrine that became weaker under the onslaught of her own miserable experience and the revolutionary massacres. Janet Todd''s introduction illuminates the progress of Wollstonecraft''s thought, showing that a reading of all three works allows her to emerge as a more substantial political writer than a study of The Rights of Woman alone can reveal. `... this edition does away with the idea of M. W. as Tom Paine in Skirts. Her mind is deepter and richer than his; her transmutation of the turmoil of her experiences during the revolutionary period in France is remarkable.'' The Observer

No feminism or feminist philosophy without "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". Wollstonecraft argues not only that women ought to have the education of a woman should fit her position and role in society, but also that they are human beings and thus deserve the same fundamental rights as men.

The pamphlet consists of a number of short treatises, indicating certain laws and principles which Mary thought needed to be more generally understood and more rmly established. Many passages show that as early as 1787 she had seriously considered the problems which, in 1791, she attempted to solve. She was even then perplexed by the unfortunate situation of women of the upper classes who, having received but the pretence of an education, eventually become dependent on their own exertions. Her sad experience probably led her to these thoughts. Reection upon them made her the champion of her sex.

This book was written while Wollstonecrafts experience as school-mistress and governess was still fresh in her memory. As she explained in the preface, her object was to make up, in some measure, for the defective education or moral training which, as a rule, children in those days received from their parents. In addressing a youthful audience, Mary was as deeply inspired by her love of goodness, per se, and her detestation of conventional conceptions of virtue, as she was afterwards in appealing to older readers. She represents, in her book, two little girls, aged respectively twelve and fourteen, who have been sadly neglected during their early years, but fall, fortunately, at this period of their life, under the care of a Mrs. Mason, who at once undertakes to form their character and train their intellect.

Like every word she wrote, Wollstonecrafts letters are full of personal revelations and wise thoughts. They are doubly interesting because can trace the intimate thought which lay beneath the public statement. One could pick out of this book enough epigrams to make a motto calendar. "Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness.""There is always a mixture of sentiment and imagination in voluptuousness " might have been written as a partial apology for the wayward Imlay. She relates her interview with the Prime Minister of Denmark, and sums him up as being "more anxious not to do wrong than to do good."

"Mary, A Fiction" is the only complete novel that Mary Wollstonecraft has ever written. She tells the tragic story of a heroines successive "romantic friendships" with a woman and a man. "Emile", Jean-Jacques Rousseaus philosophical treatise on education, was one of the major literary influences on this book.

In 1790 came that "extraordinary outburst of passionate intelligence," Mary Wollstonecrafts reply to Edmund Burkes attack on the principles of the French Revolution entitled a "Vindication of the Rights of Men." In this pamphlet she held up to scorn Burkes defence of monarch and nobility, his merciless sentimentality. "It is one of the most dashing political polemics in the language," Mr. Taylor writes enthusiastically, "and has not had the attention it deserves. . . . For sheer virility and grip of her verbal instruments it is probably the finest of her works. Some of her sentences have the quality of a sword-edge, and they flash with the rapidity of a practised duellist. It was written at a white heat of indignation; yet it is altogether typical of the writer that, in the midst of the work, quite suddenly, she had one of her fits of callousness and morbid temper, and declared she would not go on. With great skill Johnson persuaded her to take it up again; and with equal suddenness her eagerness returned, and the book was finished and published before any one else could answer Burke."

"Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman" is an unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". The book is widely considered to be her most radical feminist work. "Maria" is a philosophical as well as a gothic novel that revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband.

Maria, novela publicada de maneira póstuma en 1798, talvez sexa a obra máis radical da súa autora, Mary Wollstonecraft. O texto xira arredor das múltiples inxustizas que debe aturar a muller polo mero feito de selo. Asi, a protagonista, Maria, presa no interior dun alxube, vai narrando en primeira persoa as aciagas circunstancias do seu pasado, ateigado de episodios de gran crueldade tal que o rapto da sua filla ou non poucos abusos fisicos e psiquicos. O lector sabera en paralelo do seu presente, mais ese relato, que inclue unha historia sentimental de epoca transmitida con todo luxo de detalles, da por desgraza nun texto inacabado, xa que a autora morreu ao pouco de traer ao mundo unha filla.O valor historico da presente novela e evidente, pois Maria supon un dos primeiros achegamentos na historia do feminismo a cuestion da clase social. Polo demais, a obra conten unha serie de pasaxes autobiograficas que lle engaden novos atractivos. Con todo e iso, o certo e que non se trata dunha lectura sinxela, por ser a expresion de Wollstonecraft a miudo requintada e sisuda, non sempre fluida, produto talvez de ser ela autodidacta.

This revolutionary work from the eighteenth century is one of the first tracts of feminist philosophy Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in opposition to the gender norms of the eighteenth century. In this seminal text, Wollstonecraft argues that women should receive a comprehensive education in order to benefit society. Women and men, she argues, are moral equals in the eyes of God, and women, at the time that Wollstonecraft was writing, occupied an inferior station because they were trained to serve only men rather than civilization as a whole. Written in response to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigords assertion that women ought only to receive a domestic education and should be confined to the home, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was a remarkably forward-thinking political text. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

MARY AND THE WRONGS OF WOMEN (OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS)

Opúsculo de Mary Wollstoncraft en donde imparte consejos para la educación de las hijas en un contexto social en donde éstas apenas tienen futuro sin una dote con la que bien casarse. La obra, bellamente escrita, es un fresco historico del papel de la mujer en el siglo XVIII y esta prologado por Amelia Valcarcel.

Cartes sobre Suècia, Noruega i Dinamarca fou l’últim llibre escrit per Mary Wollstonecraft. Aquesta escriptora anglesa de finals del segle XVIII és probablement més coneguda per ser l’autora de A Vin