A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
(1759-1797)
Contents
Chapter 1: Human rights and the duties they involve
Chapter 2: The prevailing opinion about sexual differences
Chapter 3: The same subject continued
Chapter 4: The state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes
Chapter 5: Writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contempt
Chapter 6: The effect that an early association of ideas has on the character
Chapter 7: Modesty comprehensively considered and not as a sexual virtue
Chapter 8: Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation
Chapter 9: The pernicious effects of the unnatural distinctions established in society
Chapter 10: Parental Affection
Chapter 12: National education
Chapter 13: Examples of the harm done by women’s ignorance
© Jonathan Bennett 2017