Mary Wollstonecraft's landmark feminist treatise arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men but appear so only because they are denied education and rational development. She challenges the prevailing notion that women should be educated merely to please men, contending instead that they must be cultivated as rational moral agents equal to men in every respect.
14 chapters · Public domain
1
Introduction
~10 min · 5 pages
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Chapter I — The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered
~14 min · 7 pages
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Chapter II — The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
~42 min · 20 pages
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Chapter III — The Same Subject Continued
~28 min · 13 pages
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Chapter IV — Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced
~57 min · 27 pages
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Chapter V — Animadversions on Some Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity
~81 min · 36 pages
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Chapter VI — The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character
~13 min · 6 pages
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Chapter VII — Modesty Comprehensively Considered
~21 min · 10 pages
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Chapter VIII — Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions
~21 min · 10 pages
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Chapter IX — Of the Pernicious Effects of Unnatural Distinctions in Society
~23 min · 11 pages
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Chapter X — Parental Affection
~5 min · 3 pages
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Chapter XI — Duty to Parents
~11 min · 5 pages
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Chapter XII — On National Education
~49 min · 23 pages
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Chapter XIII — On the Moral and Civil State of Women
~50 min · 23 pages
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