VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN (PENGUIN POCKET HB)

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced this declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, the book attacks docile, decorative femininity, and lays out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner.