28 April 2021, The Tablet

Faith, feminism and Mary Wollstonecraft

by Sylvana Tomaselli

Faith, feminism and Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft. Detail from a portrait by John Opie, 1791
Alamy/Pictorial Press

 

The author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is sometimes described as ‘the mother of feminism’. But where did she think women’s rights came from?

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