A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft ; edited with an introduction by Miriam Brody.

Reprinted with a revised introduction 1992.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Chronology -- Author's Introduction -- Dedicatory letter to M. Talleyrand-Perigord -- I. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered -- II. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed -- III. The Same Subject Continued -- IV. Observations on the State of Degradation to which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes -- V. Animadversions on some of the Writers who have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, bordering on Contempt -- VI. The Effect which an Early Association of Ideas has upon the Character -- VII. Modesty--Comprehensively Considered, and not as a Sexual Virtue -- VIII. Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation -- IX. Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society -- X. Parental Affection.

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