A vindication of the rights of woman : an authoritative text, backgrounds, the Wollstonecraft debate, criticism / Mary Wollstonecraft ; edited by Carol H. Poston.

Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.

Edition Statement:2nd ed.

Imprint:New York : Norton, c1988.

Descriptionxi, 363 p. ; 21 cm.

Note:"The text ... is the second 1792 London edition"--Pref.

Note:From Some Thoughts Concerning Education / John Locke. - From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies / Mary Astell. - Of the peculiar management of daughters / James Burgh. - From Letters on Education Letter IV. Amusement and Instruction of Boys and Girls to be the Same / Catharine Macaulay. - Letter XXI. Morals must be taught on immutable principles / Catharine Macaulay. - Letter XXII. No characteristic differnce in sex / Catharine Macaulay. - Letter XXIII. Coquetry / Catharine Macaulay. - Letter to Henry Gabell / Mary Wollstonecraft. - [The intellectual and historial background of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] / Ralph M. Wardle. - 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. - [Mary Wollestonecraft's demands for the education of woman] / Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough. - Reason and morals in the early feminist movement: Mary Wollestonecraft / Carolyn W. Korsmeyer. - On the reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / R. M. James. - 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.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 361-363.

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