Download or read book The Rights of Woman as Chimera written by Natalie Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rights of Woman as Chimera examines Mary Wollstonecraft's intellectual relationship to Rousseau, Locke, and Aristotle. Although she learned much from each philosopher, her own thought cannot be said to be simply derivative of these thinkers. In considering "the woman question," Wollstonecraft levels important, but friendly, critiques of her male predecessors. She puts forth a conception of the nature of woman, which is informed by and consistent with her larger political philosophy, and this study endeavors to outline this conception of the nature of woman.