A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

This edition features a shrewd, annotated abridgment of Mary Wollstonecraft's *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman* (1792) accompanied by an array of texts that help situate the *Vindication* in its political, historical, and intellectual contexts. Included are key selections from Wollstonecraft's other writings; from closely related works by Burke, Paine, Godwin, Rousseau, Macaulay, Talleyrand, and Brockden Brown; and from the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and de Gouges' *Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen* (1791).