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Vindication of the rights of woman Mary Wollstonecraft ; edited with an introduction and notes by Miriam Brody.

By: Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.Edition: Revised editionDescription: xix, 452pISBN:
  • 9781108018852 (Pbk)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.420941 W83V 23
Contents:
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered -- 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed -- 3. The Same Subject Continued -- 4. Observations on the State of Degradation to which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes -- 5. Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt -- 6. The Effect which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character -- 7. Modesty -- Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue -- 8. Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation -- 9. Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society -- 10. Parental Affection -- 11. Duty to Parents -- 12. On National Education -- 13. 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.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered -- 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed -- 3. The Same Subject Continued -- 4. Observations on the State of Degradation to which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes -- 5. Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt -- 6. The Effect which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character -- 7. Modesty -- Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue -- 8. Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation -- 9. Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society -- 10. Parental Affection -- 11. Duty to Parents -- 12. On National Education -- 13. 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.

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