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She'S one of the founding mothers of feminist philosophy.
Mary Wollstonecraft was the author of a vindication of the rights of women.
Hannah Dawson is an historian of ideas at King's College London.
Here she explains why Wollstonecraft believed that the fundamental right was to right to a particular kind of freedom.
Hannah Dawson, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Hello, Nigel.
It's lovely to be here.
The topic we're going to focus on is Mary Wollstonecraft's the vindication of the rights of woman.
But before we get onto the book, could you just say a little bit about Mary Wollstonecraft?
Because she was quite a remarkable woman.
Yes, she was.
She had the most extraordinary, adventurous, dramatic, tragic, short life.
And I will tell you something of that life.
But I also want to be careful immediately, kind of sound a note of caution in thinking about her life, because so often she and indeed other women philosophers are reduced to the personal circumstances of their lives.