A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Part 1)

Mary Wollstonecraft

⏱ 8 minWisdom classic

Part 1 of 2. The founding text of feminism: Wollstonecraft strips bare the false education that cages women as pretty ornaments, and argues that virtue can have no sex — women, being rational creatures with souls, are owed the same cultivation of mind as men.

Listen to the whole of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Part 1) in about 8 minutes — professionally narrated, with Apple-Music-style synced subtitles. One book free every day; Folio Premium unlocks the entire library.