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| Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 - 1797 eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher and advocate of women's rights (by John Opie, c. 1797) |
A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman
1792
'It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses,
cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion,
that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain,
must be obtained
by their charms and weakness'
Mary Wollstonecraft
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I The rights and involved duties of mankind considered
CHAPTER II The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed
CHAPTER III The same subject continued
CHAPTER IV Observations on the state of degradation to which woman
is reduced by various causes
CHAPTER V Animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered
women objects of pity, bordering on contempt
CHAPTER VI The effect which an early association of ideas has upon the
character
CHAPTER VII Modesty.—Comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual
virtue
CHAPTER VIII Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a
good reputation
CHAPTER IX Of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural
distinctions established in society
CHAPTER X Parental affection
CHAPTER XI Duty to parents
CHAPTER XII On national education
CHAPTER XIII Some instances of the folly which the ignorance of women
generates; with concluding reflections on the moral
improvement that a revolution in female
manners may naturally be expected to produce
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