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Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of the Woman
 


 






 




A Vindication of the
Rights of the Woman

(1792)

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Title (1792)

Introduction

Letter to M. Talleyrand-Perigord

Note

I
The rights and involved duties
of mankind considered


II
The prevailing opinion
of a sexual character discussed


III
The same subject continued

IV
Observations on the state of
degradation to which woman is reduced
by various causes


V
Animadversions on some of the writers
who have rendered women objects
of pity, bordering on contempt


VI
The effect which an early association
of ideas has upon the character


VII
Modesty - comprehensively considered,
and not as a sexual virtue


VIII
Moraly undermined by sexual notions
of the importance of a good reputation


IX
Of the pernicious effects
which arise from the unnatural distinctions
established in society


X
Parental affection

XI
Duty to parents

XII
On national education

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

 
 
 
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