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  1. Contents. A Vindication of the Rights of Men. A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is a political pamphlet, written by the 18th-century British writer and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, which attacks aristocracy and ...

  2. Apr 16, 2008 · When Wollstonecraft came to write The Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which she did within a matter of months following the publication of her first overtly political work, the moral rejuvenation of society and the happiness of individual women were woven together. Women were ill-prepared for their duties as social beings and imprisoned in a web of false expectations that would inevitably ...

  3. Written by Elizabeth Shaw. A Vindication of the Rights of Men was published in 1790 and was written by Mary Wollstonecraft in response to Edmund Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France. In his political pamphlet, Burke argued against the French Revolution and advocated conservatism, monarchy, and religion.

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  5. Aug 18, 2022 · Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Men, one of the first published replies to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, is increasingly regarded as an important work in the history of political thought. This chapter argues that Wollstonecraft developed a “rhetoric of reason” to respond to Burke’s own rhetorical reliance on the eighteenth-century notion ...

  6. Summary. A Vindication of the Rights of Men is Mary Wollstonecraft 's response to British statesman and political theorist Edmund Burke 's (1729–97) political pamphlet titled Reflections on the Revolution in France. Burke's pamphlet was published in 1790 and presented his defense of the aristocracy and monarchy of France.

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  8. Jun 5, 2012 · Judging from the texts that follow, and others of her works, Mary Wollstonecraft disapproved of many things and a good number of people. She denounced astrology, trivial pursuits, inferior books, especially novels – though she did believe that it was better to read books of this kind than not to read at all – a standing army, monarchical rule, financial speculators, primogeniture, the ...

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