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082 _a305.420941
_bWOL
100 _aWollstonecraft, Mary
245 2 _aA Vindication of the Rights of Woman /
_cby Mary Wollstonecraft
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bPenguin Books,
_c2004.
300 _alxxx, 269p.;
_c20cm.
505 _aCHAPTER 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 ... SECTION I SECTION II SECTION III SECTION IV SECTION V 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 ... SECTION I SECTION II SECTION III SECTION IV SECTION V SECTION VI ENDNOTES SUGGESTED READING
520 _aWriting 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.
650 _aWomen Early works to 1800
650 _aWomen's rights
650 _a Women's rights Early works to 1800
700 _aBrody, Miriam
_eEditor
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