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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 253 pages

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a collection of essays by Mary Wollstonecraft on education, reason, and women's social position. She argues that women are not naturally inferior to men but are held back by lack of schooling and dependence. It is worth listening as an early, influential work of political thought on equality and upbringing.

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This etext was produced by
Amy E Zelmer
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Sue Asscher <[email protected]>
A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS
OF WOMAN, WITH STRICTURES
ON POLITICAL AND MORAL
SUBJECTS, BY MARY
WOLLSTONECRAFT.
WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER 1. THE RIGHTS AND INVOLVED DUTIES OF MANKIND CONSIDERED.

CHAPTER 2. THE PREVAILING OPINION OF A SEXUAL CHARACTER

DISCUSSED.

CHAPTER 3. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

CHAPTER 4. OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF DEGRADATION TO WHICH

WOMAN IS REDUCED BY VARIOUS CAUSES.

CHAPTER 5. ANIMADVERSIONS ON SOME OF THE WRITERS WHO HAVE

RENDERED WOMEN OBJECTS OF PITY, BORDERING ON CONTEMPT.

CHAPTER 6. THE EFFECT WHICH AN EARLY ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS HAS

UPON THE CHARACTER.

CHAPTER 7. MODESTY. COMPREHENSIVELY CONSIDERED, AND NOT AS A

SEXUAL VIRTUE.

CHAPTER 8. MORALITY UNDERMINED BY SEXUAL NOTIONS OF THE

IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD REPUTATION

CHAPTER 9. OF THE PERNICIOUS EFFECTS WHICH ARISE FROM THE

UNNATURAL DISTINCTIONS ESTABLISHED IN SOCIETY.

CHAPTER 10. PARENTAL AFFECTION.

CHAPTER 11. DUTY TO PARENTS

CHAPTER 12. ON NATIONAL EDUCATION

CHAPTER 13. SOME INSTANCES OF THE FOLLY WHICH THE IGNORANCE OF

WOMEN GENERATES; WITH CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS ON THE MORAL

IMPROVEMENT THAT A REVOLUTION IN FEMALE MANNERS MAY

NATURALLY BE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE. 8 April, 2001

A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.

M. Wollstonecraft was born in 1759. Her father was so great a

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  1. A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN, WITH STRICTURES ON POLITICAL AND MORAL SUBJECTS, BY MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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