A vindication of the rights of woman : an authoritative text, backgrounds, the Wollstonecraft debate, criticism /

This second edition offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976, providing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document in English.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 (Author)
Other Authors:	Poston, Carol, 1943- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [1988]
Edition:	Second edition.
Series:	Norton critical edition.
Subjects:	Wollstonecraft, Mary, > 1759-1797. > Vindication of the rights of woman. Women's rights > Great Britain > Early works to 1800. Women > Social conditions > Early works to 1800. Women > Education > Great Britain > Early works to 1800. Femmes > Droits > Grande-Bretagne. Femmes > Éducation > Grande-Bretagne. Wollstonecraft, Mary. Women's rights > Great Britain. Women > Education > Great Britain. Vindication of the rights of woman (Wollstonecraft, Mary) Women > Education. Women's rights. Great Britain. Wollstonecraft, Mary > 1759-1797 > A vindication of the rights of woman Geschichte Gleichberechtigung Aufsatzsammlung Éducation des femmes > Grande-Bretagne > 18e siècle. Wollstonecraft, Mary. > A vindication of the rights of woman. Aufsatzsammlung.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Preface to the second edition
Preface
Note on the text
Text of a vindication of the rights of woman
Backgrounds. From Some thoughts concerning education / John Locke
[Clothes]
[Cruelty]
From A serious proposal to the ladies / Mary Astell
Of the peculiar management of daughters / James Burgh
From Letters on education / Catharine Macaulay
Letter IV. Amusement and instruction of boys and girls to be the same
Letter XXI. Morals must be taught on immutable principles
Letter XXII. No characteristic difference in sex
Letter XXIII. Coquetry
Letter to Henry Gabell / Mary Wollstonecraft
[Intellectual and historical background of a vindication of the rights of woman] / Ralph M. Wardle
The Wollstonecraft debate. Caricature of Mary Wollstonecraft / David Levine
Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft / Mary Hays
From A vindication of the rights of brutes / Thomas Taylor
From Memoirs of the author of A vindication of the rights of woman / William Godwin
From The unsex'd females / Richard Polwhele
From The letters of Shahcoolen / Benjamin Silliman
To Mary Wollstonecraft / Robert Southey
Mary / William Blake
[Mary Wollstonecraft in literary history] / George Saintsbury
Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft / George Eliot
Mary Wollstonecraft : her tragic life and her passionate struggle for freedom / Emma Goldman
Afterword [Emma Goldman, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ruth Benedict] / Alice Wexler
Mary Wollstonecraft / Virginia Woolf
[Mary Wollstonecraft and the psychopathology of feminism] / Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia Farnham
Criticism. [Mary Wollstonecraft's demands for the education of woman] / Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough
Reason and morals in the early feminist movement : Mary Wollstonecraft / Carolyn W. Korsmeyer
On the reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman / R. M. Janes
Radical politics in Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman / Elissa S. Guralnick
[Feminist backgrounds and argument of A vindication of the rights of woman] / Moira Ferguson and Janet Todd
Reform or ruin : "a revolution in female manners" / Mitzi Myers
[A vindication of the rights of woman and female sexuality] / Mary Poovey
Mary Wollstonecraft--a chronology
Selected bibliography.