TY - BOOK AU - Wollstonecraft,Mary TI - A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France AV - JC PY - 2020/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes KW - Liberty KW - Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. Reflections on the revolution in France KW - Human rights N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Men; Release date is 2020-07-25; Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France" by Mary Wollstonecraft is a political pamphlet written in 1790. This fierce response attacks Edmund Burke's defense of monarchy and aristocracy, becoming the first salvo in a pamphlet war over the French Revolution. Wollstonecraft dismantles hereditary privilege and Burke's gendered rhetoric, advocating instead for republicanism and middle-class virtue. Her unabashedly feminist critique challenges a society built on women's passivity, contrasting Enlightenment progress with Burke's reliance on tradition. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62757 ER -