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Sep 2023
20m 34s

Hannah Dawson on Mary Wollstonecraft

EDMONDS AND WARBURTON
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In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Nigel Warburton interviews Hannah Dawson (editor of The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing) on Mary Wollstonecraft and her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).

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