Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights

by Eileen Hunt Botting

Book Overview

How can women's rights be seen as a universal value rather than a Western value imposed upon the rest of the world? Addressing this question, Eileen Hunt Botting offers the first comparative study of writings by Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill. Although Wollstonecraft and Mill were the primary philosophical architects of the view that women's rights are human rights, Botting shows how non-Western thinkers have revised and internationalized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300186150
• ISBN13: 9780300186154
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"