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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788923203321

Autore

Wollstonecraft Mary <1759-1797.>

Titolo

Vindication of the rights of woman : with strictures on political and moral subjects / / Mary Wollstonecraft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland : , : The Floating Press, , 1792

ISBN

1-77651-204-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 electronic document (353 pages))

Disciplina

305.42/0941

Soggetti

Women - Education - Great Britain

Women's rights - Great Britain

Women - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title; Contents; A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Dedication; Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered; Chapter 2 - The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed; Chapter 3 - The Same Subject Continued; Chapter 4 - Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes; Chapter 5 - Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt; Chapter 6 - The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has Upon the Character

Chapter 7 - Modesty Comprehensively Considered and Not as a Sexual Virtue Chapter 8 - Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation; Chapter 9 - Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society; Chapter 10 - Parental Affection; Chapter 11 - Duty to Parents; Chapter 12 - On National Education; Chapter 13 - Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; Endnotes

Sommario/riassunto

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote Vindication of the Rights of Woman in response to public debate and discussion about the education of women. She argues that women should be educated according to their station, and that they could be more than mere wives to their husbands and educators to their children. The text is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.