Political Science · Political Theory
The first text of modern feminism, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', was published in which year?
A1792 ✓ Correct
B1789
C1848
D1868
Correct answer: (A) 1792 — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was published in 1792, so the answer is 1792.
Explanation
★A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was published in 1792, so the answer is 1792.
★It was written by Mary Wollstonecraft in the wake of the French Revolution.
★She replied to those who would deny education and rights to women.
★She argued that reason is common to both sexes, so women deserve equal education.
★1789 marks the outbreak of the French Revolution, not the book.
★1848 is the year of the Seneca Falls Convention in the United States.
★The work is the founding statement of liberal feminism.
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