Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

ISBN-10: 0486290360

ISBN-13: 9780486290362

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"[A] gigantic, complicated, sprawling letter from an animated, brilliant, and often visionary natural intelligence." - Wollstonecraft s biographer Janet Todd

IntroductionNotesSelect BibliographyChronologyAuthor's Introduction1Dedicatory letter to M. Talleyrand-Perigord7IThe Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered13IIThe Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed21IIIThe Same Subject Continued41IVObservations on the State of Degradation to which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes56VAnimadversions on some of the Writers who have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, bordering on Contempt84VIThe Effect which an Early Association of Ideas has upon the Character124VIIModesty--Comprehensively Considered, and not as a Sexual Virtue131VIIIMorality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation142IXOf the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society152XParental Affection163