A Different Face

Download or read book A Different Face written by Emily W. Sunstein and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1975 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the eighteenth-century classic, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, did not march through life toward specific goals of feminism. Instead she fought her way to personal independence with a passionate, stubborn intensity at a time when women-presumed inferior-were narrowly circumscribed by law, custom, and religious belief. She demanded also a ration of happiness and sexual fulfillment, refusing to conform to the model of a submissive, decorative, domestically useful woman. Possessed of great intellectual ambitious, and largely self-educated, she rebelled against injustice everywhere she perceived it, and gradually became a political radical.