VINDICATION OF_CLASSICS EB
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VINDICATION OF_CLASSICS EB

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VINDICATION OF_CLASSICS EB

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'My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.'

In the midst of revolution, when fundamental social upheaval was reshaping France and America, writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft made an impassioned argument for women to have a place in this new world. Her demands laid out in this 1792 essay, to treat women as human beings deserving of a rational education, self-determination and equal rights alongside men, laid the foundation for modern feminism.

Wollstonecraft has been admired and loathed: called a 'hyena in petticoats' by Horace Walpole and an inspiration to writers and feminists such as George Eliot and Millicent Fawcett. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a key text to understand the making of the modern world.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Note to Readers
  4. History of William Collins
  5. Life and Times
  6. Contents
  7. Advertisement
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered
  10. 2 The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
  11. 3 The Same Subject Continued
  12. 4 Observations on the State of Degradation to which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes
  13. 5 Animadversions on Some of the Writers who have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt
  14. 6 The Effect which an Early Association of Ideas has upon the Character
  15. 7 Modesty Comprehensively Considered and Not as a Sexual Virtue
  16. 8 Morality Undermined By Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation
  17. 9 Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society
  18. 10 Parental Affection
  19. 11 Duty to Parents
  20. 12 On National Education
  21. 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
  22. Footnotes
  23. Classic Literature: Words and Phrases
  24. About the Publisher

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