Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft#xE2;#x80;#x99;s argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and expanded Third Edition is again based on the 1792 second-edition text and is accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. #xE2;#x80;#x9C;Backgrounds and Contexts#xE2;#x80;#x9D; is also significantly expanded and contains twenty-four works organized thematically into these groupings: #xE2;#x80;#x9C;Legacies of English Radicalism,#xE2;#x80;#x9D; #xE2;#x80;#x9C;Education,#xE2;#x80;#x9D; #xE2;#x80;#x9C;Wollstonecraft#xE2;#x80;#x99;s Revolutionary Moment,#xE2;#x80;#x9D; and #xE2;#x80;#x9C;The Wollstonecraft Debate.#xE2;#x80;#x9D; Opinions on a variety of reforms that may be compared and contrasted with Wollstonecraft#xE2;#x80;#x99;s include those by John Milton, John Locke, Mary Astell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hannah More, Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Maria Edgeworth, and William Godwin, among others. #xE2;#x80;#x9C;Criticism#xE2;#x80;#x9D; includes six seminal essays on A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Elissa S. Guralnick, Mitzi Myers, Cora Kaplan, Mary Poovey, Claudia L. Johnson, and Barbara Taylor. A Chronology of Wollstonecraft#xE2;#x80;#x99;s life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.