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A vindication of the rights of woman
Title
A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft ; edited and with an introduction by Eileen Hunt Botting ; with essays by Ruth Abbey, Eileen Hunt Botting, Norma Clarke, Madeline Cronin, Virgina Sapiro.
ISBN
0300207042
9780300207040
0300176473
9780300176476
Publication
New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (357 pages).
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Summary
"This edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)highlights Wollstonecraft's contributions to modern political philosophy, especially the idea of women's human rights, alongside the cultural and political contexts that inspired her important feminist arguments. It includes an introduction by Eileen Hunt Botting (the editor) and several new scholarly essays on the philosophical, literary, and political legacies of the Rights of Woman by Ruth Abbey, Eileen Hunt Botting, Norma Clarke, Madeline Cronin, and Virginia Sapiro. A biographical directory, two historical timelines, and comprehensive index complement the essays"-- Provided by publisher.
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EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of woman
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 07, 2019
Series
Rethinking the western tradition
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover; Contents; Editor's Introduction: Reading Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792-2014; Text; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London, second edition, 1792); Essays; Are Women Human? Wollstonecraft's Defense of Rights for Women; "Genius will educate itself." The British Literary Context of Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Its Legacy for Women; The Personal Is Political: Wollstonecraft's Witty, First-Person, Feminist Voice; Reading Mary Wollstonecraft in Time; Appendixes.
Biographical Directory for Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of WomanThe Life and Times of Wollstonecraft and Her Family, 1688-1818; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman within the Women's Human Rights Tradition, 1739-2015; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Contents; CHAP. I. The rights and involved duties of mankind considered; CHAP. II. The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed; CHAP. III. The same subject continued; CHAP. IV. Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes.
CHAP. V. Animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contemptCHAP. VI. The effect which an early association of ideas has upon the character; CHAP. VII. Modesty.-Comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual virtue; CHAP. VIII. Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation; CHAP. IX. Of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society; CHAP. X. Parental affection; CHAP. XI. Duty to parents; CHAP. XII. On national education.
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