A Vindication of the Rights of WomanA key work of proto feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and impassioned argument is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago. Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a treatise of proto feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it, she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased