Considering the whole _corpus_ of Mary Wollstonecraft’s writings, this paper focuses on her view of rights, seen as moral claims and rhetoric tools. Firstly, it is argued that, in the author’s perspective, their technical and judicial dimension is peripheral, where “rights” are human features within a religious conception of life. Secondly, some consequent aspects are analysed, such as the rights’ effectiveness, their nature, their content and their entitlement.

If the aim of this volume was to ‘produce a few slight concentric waves’1 ‘like a small pebble [thrown] into the pond of legal culture’,2 the goal has been amply achieved. Reviewed, presented, and...