A vindication of the Rights of Woman

Document Outline

• Cover
• Contents
  • Editor’s Introduction: Reading Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792–2014
  • Text
    • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London, second edition, 1792)
  • Essays
    • Are Women Human? Wollstonecraft’s Defense of Rights for Women
    • “Genius will educate itself.” The British Literary Context of Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Its Legacy for Women
    • The Personal Is Political: Wollstonecraft’s Witty, First-Person, Feminist Voice
    • Reading Mary Wollstonecraft in Time
  • Appendixes
    • Biographical Directory for Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    • The Life and Times of Wollstonecraft and Her Family, 1688–1818
    • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman within the Women’s Human Rights Tradition, 1739–2015
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G
    • H
    • I
    • J
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    • L
    • M
    • N
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• Contents
  • CHAP. I. The rights and involved duties of mankind considered
  • CHAP. II. The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed
  • CHAP. III. The same subject continued
  • CHAP. IV. Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes
  • CHAP. V. Animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contempt
  • CHAP. VI. The effect which an early association of ideas has upon the character
  • CHAP. VII. Modesty.—Comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual virtue
  • CHAP. VIII. Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation
  • CHAP. IX. Of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society
  • CHAP. X. Parental affection
  • CHAP. XI. Duty to parents
  • CHAP. XII. On national education
  • CHAP. 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