Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

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The 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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A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
5
Dedication
12
Introduction
20
Chapter 1 The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered
28
Chapter 2 The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
40
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

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Mary Wollstonecraft was born in London on April 27, 1759. She opened a school in Newington Green with her sister Eliza and a friend Fanny Blood in 1784. Her experiences lead her to attack traditional teaching methods and suggested new topics of study in Thoughts on the Education of Girls. In 1792, she published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she attacked the educational restrictions that kept women ignorant and dependant on men as well as describing marriage as legal prostitution. In Maria or the Wrongs of Woman, published unfinished in 1798, she asserted that women had strong sexual desires and that it was degrading and immoral to pretend otherwise. In 1793, Wollstonecraft became involved with American writer Gilbert Imlay and had a daughter named Fanny. After this relationship ended, she married William Godwin in March 1797 and had a daughter named Mary in August. Wollstonecraft died from complications following childbirth on September 10, 1797. Her daughter Mary later married Percy Bysshe Shelley and wrote Frankenstein.

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