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Her Vindication of the Rights of Woman continued these themes and applied them to women. Wollstonecraft averred that rights cannot be based on tradition, only reason and rationality. Burke was one of many British writers and polemicists who entered the impassioned dialogue on the French Revolution, but his work was particularly galvanizing to people like Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine for its espousal of the view that citizens should not rebel against their government in order to revolutionize its traditions. Wollstonecraft’s first major work, The Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790), was a response to Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) by Edmund Burke. Nineteenth-century American feminists revered its author as their founding mother and read and spoke about her works ubiquitously. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792, is often referred to as the founding text or manifesto of Western feminism.
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