Enlightenment · English
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01To M. Talleyrand-périgord Late Bishop of AUTUNaprose
- 02Introductionprose
- 03Chapter I: the rights and involved duties of mankind consideredprose
- 04Chapter II: the prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussedprose
- 05Chapter III: the same subject continuedprose
- 06Chapter IV: observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causesprose
- 07Introduction, section iprose
- 08Introduction, section iiprose
- 09Introduction, section iiiprose
- 10Introduction, section ivprose
- 11Introduction, section vprose
- 12Chapter VI: the effect which an early association of ideas has upon the characterprose
- 13Chapter VII: modesty – comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual virtueprose
- 14Chapter VIII: morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputationprose
- 15Chapter IX: of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in societyprose
- 16Chapter X: parental affectionprose
- 17Chapter XI: duty to parentsprose
- 18Chapter XII: on national educationprose
- 19Chapter XIII: some instances of the folly which the ignorance of women generates; with concluding reflections on the morprose
- 20Introduction, section i (2)prose
- 21Introduction, section ii (2)prose
- 22Introduction, section iii (2)prose
- 23Introduction, section iv (2)prose
- 24Introduction, section v (2)prose
- 25section viprose