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A Vindication of the Rights of Men, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Hints


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    Front Matter
  • A Vindication of the rights of men By Mary Wollstonecraft
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      Prefatory Note
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      A Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
  • A Vindication of the rights of woman By Mary Wollstonecraft
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      Prefatory Note
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      To M. Talleyrand-PÉrigord Late Bishop of Autun
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      Introduction
    • Vindication of the Rights of Woman Part I
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        Chapter I: The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered
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        Chapter II: The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
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        Chapter III: The Same Subject Continued
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        Chapter IV: Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes
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        Chapter V: Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt
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        Chapter VI: The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has Upon the Character
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        Chapter VII: Modesty – Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue
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        Chapter VIII: Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation
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        Chapter IX: Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society
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        Chapter X: Parental Affection
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        Chapter XI: Duty to Parents
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        Chapter XII: On National Education
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        Chapter 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
  • Hints (from Posthumous Works) By Mary Wollstonecraft
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      Prefatory Note
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