A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Womanattacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and the call for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft’s work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage—Walpole called her a hyena in petticoats”—yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-û1797) wrote on political and social topics, polemics as well as fiction.

Miriam Brody is a professor in the Writing Program at Ithaca College who has written extensively on Mary Wollstonecraft.

Introduction	p. 1
Further Reading	p. 71
A Note on the Text	p. 75
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author's Introduction	p. 79
Dedication	p. 85
The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered	p. 91
The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed	p. 100
The Same Subject Continued	p. 123
Observations on the State of Degradation to which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes	p. 141
Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt	p. 173
The Effect which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character	p. 219
Modesty - Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue	p. 227
Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation	p. 240
Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society	p. 252
Parental Affection	p. 264
Duty to Parents	p. 267
On National Education	p. 273
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	p. 300
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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