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Sylvana Tomaselli · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · 2025

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Author: Sylvana Tomaselli
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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EstablishedWollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), first published anonymously, replied to Burke's Reflections in defence of Richard Price; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) argued that women's education left them dependent and called for them to become rational, independent and educated.EstablishedA Vindication of the Rights of Woman criticises Rousseau's Émile among other works on education, and states: 'I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.'TheoryScholars including Sandrine Bergès, Alan Coffee and Lena Halldenius read Wollstonecraft as a republican thinker who understood freedom as independence from the arbitrary will of others.