A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · Concept
Sexual Inequality and Tyranny
Wollstonecraft condemns the systematic subjugation of women by men, comparing it to political tyranny, and asserts that denying women civil and political rights is unjust and undermines morality.
Wollstonecraft condemns the systematic subjugation of women by men, comparing it to political tyranny, and asserts that denying women civil and political rights is unjust and undermines morality.
She condemns the exclusion of women from civil and political rights as a form of tyranny inconsistent with reason.
Critique of the social system that keeps women in a state of ignorance and dependence.
Wollstonecraft critiques the systematic subjugation of women through arguments that justify male tyranny.
She critiques the sexual character imposed on women and the tyranny that results from their subordination.
Characters
Chapters
- To M. Talleyrand Perigord, Late Bishop of Autun
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- II
- Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes
- Chapter V
- Chapter VIII: Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of Reputation
- Chapter XIII: 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
