Very good vintage mass-market paper back. Tight, clean, flat, square with cupped spine. Marginally toned. 

In 1792, the United States of America was just five years old; Frances was in chaos before Napoleon took charge. Civil Rights: the Rights of Man was a new concept. Against this back drop, the Mother of the Mother of Frankenstein's monster wrote two books defending the idea that human beings had rights that were theirs--and not granted them by the King. 

First published in 1792, this book was written in a spirit of outrage and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. Her book is both a sustained argument for emancipation and an attack on a social and economic system. As Miriam Brody points out in her introduction, subsequent feminists tended to lose sight of her radical objectives. For Mary Wollstonecraft all aspects of women's existence were interrelated, and any effective reform depended on the redistribution of political and economic power.