A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends to women the Enlightenment principle of "the rights of man," its argument remains as relevant today as it was for Woll-stonecraft's contemporaries. "Mary Wollstonecraft was not the first writer to call for women to receive a real, challenging education," writes Katha Pollitt in the new Introduction. "But she was the first to connect the education of women to the transformation of women's social position, of relations between the sexes, and even of society itself. She was the first to argue that women's intellectual equality would and should have actual consequences. The winds of change sweep through her pages." This classic work of early feminism remains as relevant and passionate today as it was for Wollstonecraft's contemporaries. This edition includes new explanatory notes.

Katha Pollitt is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation. Author of the recently published Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture, she lives in New York City.

Introduction
Author's Introduction
To M. Talleyrand-Perigord
Note
The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered	p. 3
The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed	p. 11
The Same Subject Continued	p. 31
Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes	p. 46
Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt	p. 74
The Effect which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character	p. 113
Modesty - Comprehensively Considered, And Not as a Sexual Virtue	p. 120
Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation	p. 131
Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society	p. 141
Parental Affection	p. 152
Duty to Parents	p. 155
On National Education	p. 161
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. 185
Notes	p. 203
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