A Vindication of the rights of womanMary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the rights of woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft · first published 1792
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…philosopher) not a single female philosopher has been mentioned here which I find is a damning indictment on the state of affairs of the world of ideas. To remedy that I would recommend to you read A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft or anything by De Beauvoir (and do ignore her contemporary Sartre for he was nothing but a windbag). I am delighted that you singled out Thomas Paine (who again is not a philosopher…
on “Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?” ↗…compelling novels which had to fight viciously for every inch of ground on which they stood. You've seen how easily people convince themselves that gripes of oppression are baseless, today, 200 years after A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. We've had academics write and study and provide rhetorical tools for generations now, building a narrative, because that is what is needed. To truly argue against it, it must be met on that same narrative…
on “The Logic of “Stupid” Poor People” ↗I actually have on my desk, right now, Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." To summarize one of her points from memory, she basically lays into Rousseau about having a lot of opinions on domestic life for someone who clearly doesn't even know how to set foot in a kitchen.
on “String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'” ↗Yes, "Feminism is for everybody" and/or "Gender Trouble" are just as, if not more, notable than "The Second Sex." Or maybe some of the earliest publications, like 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.' Regardless of the details, there are certainly more than one notable work inside of feminism.
on “List of important publications in philosophy” ↗…develops materials for Christian Homeschooling. That sounds like a deliberate bias towards a white, male, English, Christian subset of classic literature. Not only doesn't they include something like "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", it doesn't look like they even include Les Misérables, which we read in school. While the first list includes Freud's "The Sexual Enlightenment of Children"??? Yeah, go ahead and explain why students…
on “A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives” ↗