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Sinopse

Written as a passionate riposte to Talleyrand’s report to the French National Assembly, in which he declared that women needed only a domestic education, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the traditional view of decorative femininity and deplored the educational restrictions and the “mistaken notions of female excellence” that degraded women and kept them in a state of “slavish dependence”. Indeed, independence, “the grand blessing of life”, was at the heart of Wollstonecraft’s philosophy, and it is a mark of the profound influence of her words that Virginia Woolf, writing almost a century and a half later, could state that “her originality has become our commonplace”. …

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Autora imortal, segundo Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) é, pelo seu legado, a primeira feminista digna desse nome. Intelectual revolucionária, a sua vida atribulada levá-la-ia, depois de ter sido professora e tradutora, a presenciar a Revolução Francesa e a conviver com William Blake e Thomas Paine. A sua biografia é uma digna ilustração da obra que compôs, na qual se destacam Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) e A…

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