A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Politics, History, Philosophy book. Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that...
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- ISBN: 9780143037507 / 143037501
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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists - I wish to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings who are only the objects of pity and that kind of love, which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Es un libro que se me ocurrio leer debido a que este tema esta ms que presente en esta poca, el feminimo. A pesar de ser un libro corto las primeras 100 hojas se hacen muy difciles de llevar por la redaccin (no por el lxico usado), y las 60 restantes parecen un parpadeo.Muchos de los tpicos que toca podran considerarse ya superados,... The language might be a little hard but i love this first piece of feminist literature, if only Rousseau didn't talk too much The eloquence of early feminists like Wollstonecraft simply delights me! To make her case for the proper education of women, Wollstonecraft asserts that the present state of women derives from acquired habit and learned associations not from a fault of the innate nature of females and censures both Milton's inconsistent discussions...
