A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wollstonecraft first defended the rights of men in response to Burke’s pamphlet on the French Revolution, then turned to the rights of woman a couple of years later. It is one of the foundation texts of modern feminist thought.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (London: J. Johnson, 1792).
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- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
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Table of Contents
- TO M. TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD LATE BISHOP OF AUTUNa
- ADVERTISEMENT
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I: the rights and involved duties of mankind considered
- CHAPTER II: the prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed
- CHAPTER III: the same subject continued
- CHAPTER IV: observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes
- CHAPTER V: animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contempt
- section i
- section ii
- section iii
- section iv
- section v
- CHAPTER VI: the effect which an early association of ideas has upon the character
- CHAPTER VII: modesty – comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual virtue
- CHAPTER VIII: morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation
- CHAPTER IX: of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society
- CHAPTER X: parental affection
- CHAPTER XI: duty to parents
- CHAPTER XII: on national education
- CHAPTER XIII: some instances of the folly which the ignorance of women generates; with concluding reflections on the moral improvement that a revolution in female manners might naturally be expected to produce
- section i
- section ii
- section iii
- section iv
- section v
- section vi
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