A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 为女权辩护

The First Edition of this Norton Critical Edition was both an acclaimed classroom text and ahead of its time. This Second Edmon offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976 provid stoing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document in English 　　The text of the work remains that of Woltstonecraft's second edition of 1792, for scholarship has vindicated that choice. The annotations have been greatly expanded.
The "Backgrounds" section documents more fully the early concern for women's education, with important extracts from the work of John Locke and Mary Astell, as well as three more of Catharine Macauley's influential "Letters on Education."
A new section, "The Wollstonecraft Debate," provides a wide spectrum of opinions about the woman herself, from the nastiness of Richard Polwhele to the adulation of William Blake. balanced by the reasonable assessments Of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.
The "Criticism" section retains the historically important essays and adds the best recent essays.
THE EDITOR: CAROL H. POSTON teaches English at Saint Xavier College in Chicago. She has also edited Wollstonecraft's Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, and is co-author of Reclaiming Our Lives: Hope for Adult Survivors of Incest.
ABOUT THE SERIES Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory as well as a bibliograplav and. in manv cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.
FRONT ILLUSTRATION A Bust of a Girl with an Earring (1770) by Angelica Kauffmann. courtesy of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay.
ANGELICA KAUFFMANN (1741-1807) was one of the most acclaimed artists of the eighteenth century, Swiss-born, she debuted in 1776 in London, where she was befriended by Sir joshua Reynolds and later became one of the founders of the Royal Academy. An accomplished history painter, she is credited with introducing that genre to England.

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Note on the Text
The Text of A Vindicationo　f the Rights of Woman
Backgrounds
　John Locke·From Some Thoughts Concerning Education
　[Clothes]
　 [Cruelty]
　Mary Astell·From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
　James Burgh·Of the Peculiar Management of Daughters
　Catharine Macaulay·From Letters on Education
　　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
　Mary Wollstonecrafl·Letter to Henry Gabell
　Ralph M. Wardle·[The Intellectual and Historical
　Background of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]
The Wollstonecraft Debate
　David Levine·Caricature of Mary Wollstonecrafl
　Mary Hays·Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft
　Thomas Taylor·From A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes
　William Godwin·From Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
　Richard Polwhele·From The Unsex'd Females
　Benjamin Silliman·From The Letters of Shahcoolen
　Robert Southey·To Mary Wollstonecraft
　William Blake·Mary
　George Saintsbury·[Mary Wollstonecraft in Literary History]
　George Eliot·Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft
　Emma Goldman·Mary Wollstonecraft: Her Tragic Life and Her Passionate Struggle for Freedom
　Alice Wexler·Afterword [Emma Goldman, Mary
Wollstonecraft, and Ruth Benedictt
　Virginia Woolf. Mary Wollstonecraft
　Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia Farnham·[Mary
Wollstonecraft and the Psychopathology of Feminism]
Criticism
　Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough·IMary Wollstonecraft's
　 Demands for the Education of Woman]
　Carolyn W. Korsmeyer·Reason and Morals in the Early
　Feminist Movement: Mary Wollstonecraft
　R. M. Janes·On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's
　 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
　Elissa S. Guralnick·Radical Politics in Mary Wollstone-
　 craft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
　Moira Ferguson and Janet Todd·[Feminist Backgrounds
　 and Argument of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]
　Mitzi Myers·Reform or Ruin: "A Revolution in
　 Female Manners"
　Mary Poovey·IA Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Female Sexuality]
Mary Wollstonecraft-A Chronology
Selected Bibliography