Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1st Edition
Published on 26. August 2014
369 pages
978-0-300-20704-0 (ISBN)
Description
Mary Wollstonecraft's visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women's rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft's heartfelt feminist argument includes illuminating essays by leading scholars that highlight the author's significant contributions to modern political philosophy, making a powerful case for her as one of the most substantive political thinkers of the Enlightenment era. No other scholarly work to date has examined as closely both the ideological moorings and the enduring legacy of Wollstonecraft's groundbreaking and courageous discourse.
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Content
- 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
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- 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
