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A vindication of the rights of woman /

"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 femin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Hunt, Eileen M., 1971- (Editor , Contribuidor), Abbey, Ruth, 1961- (Contribuidor), Clarke, Norma, 1948- (Contribuidor), Cronin, Madeline (Contribuidor), Sapiro, Virginia (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2014]
Colección:Rethinking the Western tradition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.