55. Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

Published by Columbia University Press 2016

55. Vindication of the Rights of Woman

From the book Democracy

Mary Wollstonecraft

https://doi.org/10.7312/blau17412-067

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Democracy

Chapters in this book (124)

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Democracy – Triumph or Crisis?

Part One. Traditional Affirmations of Democracy

Introduction

1. Funeral Oration

2. The Politics

3. The Discourses

4. Leviathan

5. The Social Contract

6. The Federalist Papers

7. Representative Government

8. Democracy in America

9. The Putney Debates

10. Rights of Man

11. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

12. The Gettysburg Address

13. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Part Two. Key Concepts

Section 1: Freedom and Autonomy

Introduction

14. The Social Contract

15. On the Common Saying: ‘This May Be True in Theory but it Does not Apply in Practice’

16. The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns

17. Two Concepts of Liberty

18. In Defense of Anarchism

Section 2: Equality

Introduction

19. The Second Treatise of Government

20. The Social Contract

21. A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

22. Equality

23. The Idea of Equality

Section 3: Representation

Introduction

24. The Social Contract

25. Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll, 3 November 1774

26. Essay on Government

27. The Concept of Representation

28. The Politics of Presence

29. Justice and the Politics of Difference

30. The Illusion of Universal Suffrage

31. Parliamentary Isolation

Section 4: Majority Rule

Introduction

32. The Social Contract

33. A Paradox in the Theory of Democracy

34. Representative Government

35. Democracy in America

36. The Theory of Democracy Revisited

Section 5: Citizenship

Introduction

37. The Politics

38. Class, Citizenship and Social Development

39. The Return of the Citizen

40. Civic Republicanism and Citizenship: The Challenge for Today

Part Three. Critiques of Democracy

Section 6: Conservative, Elitist and Authoritarian Critiques

Introduction

41. The Republic

42. Reflections on the Revolution in France

43. The Meaning of Conservatism

44. The Doctrine of Fascism

45. The Concept of the Political

46. Economy and Society

47. Political Parties

48. Anti-Elitism Revisited

49. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Section 7: Marxist and Socialist Critiques

Introduction

50. On the Jewish Question

51. The Civil War in France

52. The State and Revolution

53. Marxism and Politics

54. Democratic Theory, Essays in Retrieval

Section 8: Feminist Critiques

Introduction

55. Vindication of the Rights of Woman

56. Women in Political Theory

57. Feminism and Democracy

58. Losing the Faith: Feminism and Democracy

Part Four. Contemporary Issues

Section 9: The Market

Introduction

59. The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism

60. Ethics, Efficiency, and the Market

61. Capitalism and Freedom

62. Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Democratization

63. Arguments for a New Left

64. Wealth Accumulates and Democracy Decays

65. American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization

Section 10: Civil Society

Introduction

66. Civil Society and Political Theory

67. Bowling Alone

68. Associative Principles and Democratic Reform

Section 11: Participation

Introduction

69. More Participation, More Democracy?

70. On Participation

71. Participation and Democratic Theory

72. The Two Faces of Political Apathy

73. What Deliberative Democracy Means

Section 12: The Internet

Introduction

74. Politics: Deliberation, Mobilization, and Networked Practices of Agitation

75. Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age

76. The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World

Section 13: Nationalism

Introduction

77.Nationalism and Democracy

78. Citizenship and National Identity

79. ‘The People’, Identity and Democracy

80. Nationalism and Democracy

Section 14: Cosmopolitan Democracy

Introduction

81. Methodological Cosmopolitanism

82. The Practice of Global Citizenship

83. World Citizenship

84. Global Democracy and Its Setbacks

85. The Post- National Constellation and the Future of Democracy

86. The Prospect of ‘Post-Westphalian’ Intervention

Section 15: Religion

Introduction

87. Islam and Democracy: What is the Real Question?

88. Public Islam and the Problem of Democratization

89. Habermas and Religion

90. Whither Democracy? Religion, Politics and Islam

91. The Life and Death of Democracy

Section 16: Multiculturalism

Introduction

92. The Dynamics of Democratic Exclusion

93. Multicultural Citizenship

94. Justice and the Politics of Difference

95. The Racial Contract

Section 17: Democracy and Violence

Introduction

96. On Violence

97. Two Versions of ‘We the People’

98. New Forms of Violence

99. Global Frontier- land

Bibliography

Index