A Vindication of the Rights of Men 1
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A Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 5
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 65
Dedication 67
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Contents 72
Introduction 74
1 The rights and involved duties of mankind considered 79
2 The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed 87
3 The same subject continued 109
4 Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes 126
5 Animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered women objects of pity,bordering on contempt 156
6 The effect which an early association of ideas has upon the character 200
7 Modesty.-Comprehensively considered,and not as a sexual virtue 207
8 Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation 219
9 Of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society 230
10 Parental affection 242
11 Duty to parents 245
12 On national education 251
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 276
Hints,chiefly designed to have been incorporated in the second part of the Vindication of the Rights of Woman 295
Biographical notes 304
Index 322