Anca Vlasopolos (essay date autumn 1980)


Anca Vlasopolos (essay date autumn 1980)

SOURCE: Vlasopolos, Anca. “Mary Wollstonecraft's Mark of Reason in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Dalhousie Review 60, no. 3 (autumn 1980): 462-71.

[In the following essay, Vlasopolos claims that A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was written for “men of reason,” whom Wollstonecraft recognized as being the owners of power and able to implement the ideals she espoused.]

Underneath the tough talk of the speaking voice in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman hides a number...

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