CHAPTER ONE - THE RIGHTS AND INVOLVED DUTIES OF MANKIND CONSIDERED
CHAPTER TWO - THE PREVAILING OPINION OF A SEXUAL CHARACTER DISCUSSED
CHAPTER THREE - THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED
CHAPTER FOUR - OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF DEGRADATION TO WHICH WOMAN IS ...
CHAPTER FIVE - ANIMADVERSIONS ON SOME OF THE WRITERS WHO HAVE RENDERED WOMEN ...
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CHAPTER SIX - THE EFFECT WHICH AN EARLY ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS HAS UPON THE CHARACTER
CHAPTER SEVEN - MODESTY—COMPREHENSIVELY CONSIDERED, AND NOT AS A SEXUAL VIRTUE
CHAPTER EIGHT - MORALITY UNDERMINED BY SEXUAL NOTIONS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF A ...
CHAPTER NINE - OF THE PERNICIOUS EFFECTS WHICH ARISE FROM THE UNNATURAL ...
CHAPTER TEN - PARENTAL AFFECTION
CHAPTER ELEVEN - DUTY TO PARENTS
CHAPTER TWELVE - ON NATIONAL EDUCATION
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - SOME INSTANCES OF THE FOLLY WHICH THE IGNORANCE OF WOMEN ...
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Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft's work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - Walpole called her 'a hyena in petticoats' - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.