A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Written in 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is one of the earliest works on "the woman question" and influenced the earliest feminists in England and America in the 19th century. The full text is freely available at various sites on-line.

http://www.constitution.org/woll/row.htm

http://www.undelete.org/library/library0011

http://www.bartleby.com/144/ (this site includes a search engine for the text)

http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/mwollstone/bl-mwoll-vin-in.htm

http://www.swan.ac.uk/poli/texts/wollstonecraft/vindicon.htm