This edition features a shrewd, annotated abridgment of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) accompanied by an array of texts that help situate the Vindication in its political, historical, and intellectual contexts. Included are key selections from Wollstonecraft's other writings; from closely related works by Burke, Paine, Godwin, Rousseau, Macaulay, Talleyrand, and Brockden Brown; and from the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and de Gouges' Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen (1791). Barnard and Shapiro have produced a competitively priced and valuable teaching edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , which is underpinned by a commitment to clear phrasing, explanation and contextualisation that undergraduate students will undoubtedly find helpful and illuminating. - Katie Garner, Eighteenth-Century Studies Philip Barnard is Professor of English, University of Kansas. Stephen Shapiro is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick. Concise, annotated version of Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) with pertinent texts Features key excerpts from Wollstonecraft's other works and related texts Includes comprehensive and helpful editorial notes Provides historical and contextual background for the Vindication Contains selections from French and American philosophical texts