Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

21 chapters9h 46mEnglish1792

About this book

Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagined a social order founded on reason. - Today, Wollstonecraft is considered a foundational thinker in feminist philosophy. Her early advocacy of women's equality and her attacks on conventional femininity and the degradation of women presaged the later emergence of the feminist political movement. Feminist scholars and activists have cited both her philosophical ideas and personal struggles as important influences in their work. This is one of the 12 Books That Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg. (Summary from Wikipedia and Alex Foster)

Chapters (20)

1Author's Introduction

700

2Chapter 1: The Rights and Involved Duties Of Mankind Considered

1419

3Chapter 2: The Prevailing Opinion Of a Sexual Character Discussed

3172

4Chapter 3: The Same Subject Continued

2056

5Chapter 4: Observations On the State Of Degradation To Which Woman Is Reduced By Various Causes Part 1

1656

6Chapter 4: Observations On the State Of Degradation To Which Woman Is Reduced By Various Causes Part 2

1644

7Chapter 4: Observations On the State Of Degradation To Which Woman Is Reduced By Various Causes Part 3

1576

8Chapter 5: Animadversions On Some Of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women As Objects Of Pity, Bordering On Contempt Part 1

2542

9Chapter 5: Animadversions On Some Of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women As Objects Of Pity, Bordering On Contempt Part 2

1419

10Chapter 5: Animadversions On Some Of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women As Objects Of Pity, Bordering On Contempt Part 3

905

11Chapter 5: Animadversions On Some Of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women As Objects Of Pity, Bordering On Contempt Part 4

1452

12Chapter 6: The Effect Which an Early Association Of Ideas Has Upon the Character

1157

13Chapter 7: Modesty, Comprehensively Considered, And Not As a Sexual Virtue

1634

14Chapter 8: Morality Undermined By Sexual Notions Of the Importance Of a Good Reputation

1886

15Chapter 9: Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise From the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society

1620

16Chapter 10: Parental Affection

480

17Chapter 11: Duty to Parents

942

18Chapter 12: On National Education

4469

19Chapter 13: Some Instances Of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates Part 1

1639

20Chapter 13: Some Instances Of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates Part 2

1840

Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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