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A vindication of the rights of woman, Mary Wollstonecraft

eng

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non fiction

A vindication of the rights of woman

807979187

Mary Wollstonecraft

Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- Author's introduction -- Dedicatory letter to M. Talleyrand-Perigord late Bishop of Autun -- Note -- Rights and involved duties of mankind considered -- Prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed -- Same subject continued -- Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes -- Animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contempt -- Effect which an early association of ideas has upon the character -- Modesty-comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual virtue -- Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation -- Pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society -- Parental affection -- Duty to parents -- National education -- 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