ABSTRACT
In this chapter I present Wollstonecraft’s conception of human rights, and argue that she offers two important contributions to contemporary human rights theory and practice. First, she develops a sophisticated conception of human rights education, which acknowledges the difficulty of teaching human rights to a sceptical or hostile audience. Second, she challenges our own assumptions about what human rights are by presenting a rich yet unfamiliar idea of human rights in terms of personal transformation and self-improvement.
