A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society, claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be “companions” to their husbands, rather than mere wives. Instead of viewing women as ornaments to society or property to be traded in marriage, Wollstonecraft maintains that they are human beings deserving of the same fundamental rights as men.

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List of Chapters:

Ch. 1. – The rights and involved duties of mankind considered
Ch. 2. – The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed
Ch. 3. – The same subject continued
Ch. 4. – Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes
Ch. 5. – Animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contempt
Ch. 6. – The effect which an early association of ideas has upon the character
Ch. 7. – Modesty.—Comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual virtue
Ch. 8. – Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation
Ch. 9. – Of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society
Ch. 10. – Parental affection
Ch. 11. – Duty to parents
Ch. 12. – On national education
Ch. 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 may naturally be expected to produce