A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Book

	Introduction
	Notes
	Select Bibliography
	Chronology
	Author's Introduction	1
	Dedicatory letter to M. Talleyrand-Perigord	7
I	The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered	13
II	The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed	21
III	The Same Subject Continued	41
IV	Observations on the State of Degradation to which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes	56
V	Animadversions on some of the Writers who have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, bordering on Contempt	84
VI	The Effect which an Early Association of Ideas has upon the Character	124
VII	Modesty--Comprehensively Considered, and not as a Sexual Virtue	131
VIII	Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation	142
IX	Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society	152
X	Parental Affection	163