A vindication of the rights of woman /
Mary Wollstonecraft ; edited with an introduction by Miriam Brody.
- 319 pages ; 20 cm.
- Penguin classics .
- Penguin classics. .
Reprinted with a revised introduction 1992.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Chronology -- Author's Introduction -- Dedicatory letter to M. Talleyrand-Perigord -- The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered -- The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed -- The 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 -- The 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 -- Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society -- Parental Affection. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X.