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A vindication of the rights of woman

DEDICATION TO M. TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD, Late Bishop Of Autun.

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The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered.

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The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed.

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The Same Subject Continued.

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Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes.

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Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt

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The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character.

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Modesty.-Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue.

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Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation.

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Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society.

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Parental Affection.

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Duty to Parents.

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On National Education.

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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.

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A vindication of the rights of woman

Mary Wolstonecraft

W. Scott

London

[1892]