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caltho's review against another edition
i will have to reread, mmm
(also it does not take me this long to read it i was busy man)
(also it does not take me this long to read it i was busy man)
izumisano's review against another edition
blah blah blah. people talk too much in the 1700s.
profbeards's review against another edition
3.0
More of a 3.5 than a 3, mostly for style. MW is spot on with a lot of her arguments and complete deconstruction of her contemporaries and their poor treatment and opinions of women in general. I just forgot how, at times, her style can be hard to follow because she really tries to go for the jugular in almost every sentence.
jiggywithjordyn's review against another edition
2.0
I really don't remember what I thought about this since I read it for a class in college.
cat_thecatlady's review against another edition
3.0
it's very interesting to read such an old philosophy book because so many of the concepts we now accept as normal (school for both boys and girls, women in parliament, etc) were considered so radical. it is an old book, and it reads like one. it's funny and sarcastic at times but also a bit repetitive and overly long. this was the beginning of a lot of change, which puts it obligatorily on the reading list of any feminist theory enthusiast. I'm glad I finally read it!
michelleshinee's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
ninj's review against another edition
2.0
I really struggled with this. Part of it is the older style of writing, both with language and style. Wollstonecraft is big on punctuation and goes heavy on the commas: one sentence had 14 commas and two semi-colons. She doesn't even let exclamation marks stop her sentences! and if she has a question to ask, well, hey, does the question mark have to go at the end? or perhaps could it just sit in the middle of the sentence. Taken as a whole it meant I didn't really feel like I was hearing a cohesive argument.
Positives were the contextual remarks on the class system in play at the time. Some of the latter chapters weren't too bad in their discussion of potential education styles. Amusingly, it felt like in her conclusion that she was insulting me, the reader!
Positives were the contextual remarks on the class system in play at the time. Some of the latter chapters weren't too bad in their discussion of potential education styles. Amusingly, it felt like in her conclusion that she was insulting me, the reader!