{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/9a03fe9e-1ff0-4dcc-b3f6-50bd1f016ea4/aa1c560e-57e0-4fac-9e67-9ebec8144098?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"History of Ideas: Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195701f2eacc3a36070252a/619570bccb3c660012e3cfbe.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Mary Wollstonecraft’s <em>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</em> (1792) is one of the most remarkable books in the history of ideas.&nbsp;A classic of early feminism, it uses what’s wrong with the relationship between men and women to illustrate what’s gone wrong with politics.&nbsp;It’s a story of lust and power, education and revolution.&nbsp;David explores how Wollstonecraft’s radical challenge to the basic ideas of modern politics continues to resonate today.</p><p><br></p><p>To get all 12 talks - please subscribe to the new podcast - Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS. https://tinyurl.com/ybypzokq</p><p><br></p><p>Free online version of the text:</p><ul><li>&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420</a></li></ul><p>Recommended version to purchase:&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/wollstonecraft-vindication-rights-men-and-vindication-rights-woman-and-hints?format=PB\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/wollstonecraft-vindication-rights-men-and-vindication-rights-woman-and-hints?format=PB</a>&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Going Deeper:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pg5dr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">In Our Time on Mary Wollstonecraft&nbsp;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wollstonecraft/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wollstonecraft in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a></li><li><a href=\"https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169033/wollstonecraft\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sylvana Tomaselli, <em>Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics</em> (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020)</a></li><li><a href=\"http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301251h.html#e16\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Woolf on Mary Wollstonecraft</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Revolutionary-Writings-Reflections-Revolution-Cambridge/dp/0521605091\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Edmund Burke, <em>Reflections on the Revolution in France</em></a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/183/183856/sense-and-sensibility/9780141199672.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Austen, <em>Sense and Sensibility</em></a></li></ul>","author_name":"David Runciman and Catherine Carr"}