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• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
• Contents
• Introduction
• A Note on the Text and Abridgment
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
• To M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop of Autun
• Introduction
• I. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered
• II. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
• III. The Same Subject Continued
• IV. Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes
• V. Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt
• VI. The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has Upon the Character
• VII. Modesty—Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue
• VIII. Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation
• IX. Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society
• X. Parental Affection
• XI. Duty to Parents
• XII. On National Education
• XIII. Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; With Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement That a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce
• Related Texts
• I. Revolution Debates
• 1. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
• 2. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
• 3. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
• 4. Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791)
• 5. William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)
• 6. Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (1794)
• II. Debates on Women’s Education and Rights
• 1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education (1762)
• 2. Catharine Macaulay, Letters on Education (1790)
• 3. Talleyrand, Report on Public Instruction (1791)
• 4. Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen (1791)
• 5. Charles Brockden Brown, Alcuin; A Dialogue (1798)
• Bibliography and Works Cited
• Back Cover