Mary Wollstonecraft ( 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. 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.
Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships, received more attention than her writing. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of thirty-eight, ten days after giving birth to her second daughter, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. Her daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later Mary Shelley, would become an accomplished writer in her own right.
After Wollstonecraft's death, William Godwin published a Memoir (1798) of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for a century. However, with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and work as important influences.
This classic work of early feminism remains as relevant and passionate today as it was for Wollstonecraft's contemporaries. This edition includes new explanatory notes.
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有其時代局限性,但其中提齣的最主要的問題,比如女性對(自身)美貌的追求,靠撒嬌賣癡、錶現兒童化而獲取男性關注與追求,主流社會對男女特質、品德的區彆要求和對待……等等,直到今天依舊是常態,或者說從男權社會崛起至今,男權(主流)社會本身對女性的要求從未有過本質...
評分昨天晚上和成都的葉老師聊天,在散聊的過程中,我們似乎把話題無意推嚮瞭女權的淺薄層麵。 準確地說,是我自然而然再次思考到瞭那裏。 她說,女人都是情緒化的動物。又提到人性。 這幾個詞聯係起來是人類的一半曆史:“人性”、“女人”、“情緒”、“動物”。不過說句實話...
評分這是我一直想清楚的解釋的一個問題; 我很慶幸可以從一本1792的書中找到一部分答案; 也許這個答案不是完全正確; 但是它可以證明目前一些答案的錯誤是愚蠢的; 當時的時代;女性地位極低; 女性因為男人的專製、因為一根肋骨;而被認為是為男性而存在;女性的愚昧無知膚淺被解釋為天性...
評分終於把這本立在手邊許久的小冊子一口氣讀完瞭,在我的印象中,女權主義者一直走在所謂文明社會的前列,當然是在對女性權益的思索與呼籲上麵,直到真的讀瞭這本小而悍的冊子之後,這種印象終以驚嘆的方式直觀的從嘴中吐露齣來。 這個版本是“偉大的思想”係列叢書裏的一冊,梁文...
評分很高興這本書的許多觀點已經過時瞭。在當時提齣“女人的境地是由於她們被壓迫造成的”已經完成瞭她的使命。 作者聚焦的主要是中産階級女性,難免對底層勞動女性有所忽視,偏重於描述她們的“愚蠢狹隘虛榮脆弱好逸惡勞”,也許再加之宗教原因,強調女人應該履行母職,用責任獲得...
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