Authors: Mary Wollstonecraft
ISBN-13: 9780486290362, ISBN-10: 0486290360
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: July 1996
Edition: Special Value
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) first achieved fame for her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she extended the radical idea of the "rights of man" to women and laid the groundwork for modern feminism.
Deidre Shauna Lynch is Chancellor Jackman Professor and Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Economy of Character, which was awarded the MLA’s Prize for a First Book, and editor of Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees and, with William B. Warner, Cultural Institutions of the Novel. She is also an editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools’ Graduate Faculty Teaching Award.
"[A] gigantic, complicated, sprawling letter from an animated, brilliant, and often visionary natural intelligence." - Wollstonecraft s biographer Janet Todd
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Chronology | ||
Author's Introduction | 1 | |
Dedicatory letter to M. Talleyrand-Perigord | 7 | |
I | The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered | 13 |
II | The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed | 21 |
III | The Same Subject Continued | 41 |
IV | Observations on the State of Degradation to which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes | 56 |
V | Animadversions on some of the Writers who have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, bordering on Contempt | 84 |
VI | The Effect which an Early Association of Ideas has upon the Character | 124 |
VII | Modesty--Comprehensively Considered, and not as a Sexual Virtue | 131 |
VIII | Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation | 142 |
IX | Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society | 152 |
X | Parental Affection | 163 |