Vindication of the Rights of Woman : With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.

Vindication of the Rights of Woman : With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote Vindication of the Rights of Woman in response to public debate and discussion about the education of women. She argues that women should be educated according to their station, and that they could be more than mere wives to their husbands and educators to their children. T...

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Main Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Auckland : Floating Press, 1792.
Subjects:
Women > Early works to 1800.
Women's rights > Early works to 1800.
Women
Women's rights
Early works
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Table of Contents:
  • Title; Contents; A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Dedication; 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 VirtueChapter 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; End.

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