Download or read book A VINDICATION of the RIGHTS of WOMAN (with STRICTURES on POLITICAL and MORAL SUBJECTS) Illustrated Edition written by "MARY Wollstone " CRAFT and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together extracts of 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.