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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
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With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects |
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Mary Wollstonecraft |
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Published in 1792, A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman was the first great feminist treatise. Wollstonecraft
preached that intellect will always govern and sought “to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and
to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of
sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonimous
[sic] with epithets of weakness.” |
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The rights and involved duties of mankind
considered |
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The prevailing opinion of a sexual character
discussed |
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The same subject continued |
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Observations on the state of degradation to
which woman is reduced by various causes |
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Animadversions on some of the writers who have
rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contempt |
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The effect which an early association of ideas
has upon the character |
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Modesty.—Comprehensively considered, and not
as a sexual virtue |
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Morality undermined by sexual notions of the
importance of a good reputation |
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Of the pernicious effects which arise from the
unnatural distinctions established in society |
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Parental affection |
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Duty to parents |
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On national education |
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Some instances of the folly which the
ignorance of women generates; with concluding reflections on the moral
improvement that a revolution in female manners may naturally be expected to
produce |
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