Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral SubjectsThe Floating Press, 2010 M06 1 - 353 páginas 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. |
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Chapter 3 The Same Subject Continued | 73 |
Chapter 4 Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes | 95 |
Chapter 5 Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity Bordering on Contempt | 139 |
Chapter 7 Modesty Comprehensively Considered and Not as a Sexual Virtue | 214 |
Chapter 8 Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation | 231 |
Chapter 9 Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society | 248 |
Chapter 10 Parental Affection | 266 |
Chapter 11 Duty to Parents | 271 |
Chapter 12 On National Education | 280 |
Chapter 13 Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates | 318 |
Endnotes | 348 |
Chapter 6 The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has Upon the Character | 203 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral ... Mary Wollstonecraft Sin vista previa disponible - 2014 |
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Large Print Edition: With Strictures ... Mary Wollstonecraft Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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