ISBN:
1423652843
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9781423652847
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Women's voice
Uniform Title:
Vindication of the rights of woman
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 Feminist papers
DDC:
305.420941
Keywords:
Women's rights Early works to 1800
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Women Early works to 1800 Education
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Women Early works to 1800 Social and moral questions
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Feminism Early works to 1800
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Feminism
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Women ; Education
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Women ; Social and moral questions
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Women's rights
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Early works
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Great Britain
Abstract:
By the matriarch of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women tackles women's rights decades before the women's suffrage movement began. In what is widely considered the very first feminist manifesto, her writing has paved the way of progress for generations to come
Abstract:
Intro; A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Introduction; The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered; The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed; The Same Subject Continued; Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes; Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt; The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has Upon the Character; Modesty Comprehensively Considered and Not as a Sexual Virtue
Abstract:
Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good ReputationOf the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society; Parental Affection; Duty to Parents; On National Education; Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement that a Revolution in Female Manners May Naturally Be Expected to Produce
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