kimannjosouth 's review for:

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Shelley

4.0

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okay i didn't read the whole thing, i read the abbreviated version in the norton anthology that i'm using to study. but i feel like i get the jist AND i never WILL read the whole thing (unless i have to teach the whole thing or something) so i might as well mark it as read here and write a short "review" of what i did read. i REALLY liked a lot of her very feminist points-- especially considering that she was very sarcastic which is quite funny because of WHEN she was writing, before sarcasm was truly hip-- but then she said some crazy things i disagreed with. sometimes she was all like, i know this is going to sound crazy, but-- and would say something crazy and then justify it. that was okay. but then other times, she didn't preface at all and i was like, whoa mary, whoa. you can't just SAY that. she was before her times, though, for sure, with her view on women and education, and i really liked the points she made about how rich people are just fucked as women (were at the time because women weren't being educated because they were women, and rich people weren't being properly educated because they were spoiled brats--), that was interesting for sure, and for that.... 3.7 stars. i'll round up to four, mary, just because.