A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
- Dedication
- Advertisement
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The rights and duties of
mankind considered
- Chapter 2: The prevailing opinion of a
sexual character discussed
- Chapter 3: The same subject continued
- Chapter 4: Observations on the state of
degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes
- Chapter 5: Animadversions on some of the
writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contempt
- Chapter 6: The effect which an early
association of ideas has upon the character
- Chapter 7: Modesty. -- Comprehensively
considered, and not as a sexual virtue
- Chapter 8: Morality undermined by sexual
notions of the importance of a good reputation
- Chapter 9: Of the pernicious effects which
arise from the unnatural distinctions established
in society
- Chapter 10: Parental affection
- Chapter 11: Duty to parents
- Chapter 12: On national education
- Chapter 13: 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