Written as "an effort to ameliorate the moral and social condition of women ... This treatise was greeted and endorsed with great enthusiasm by the press, which commended it to the reading public, clergy, and legislators. In short, the author probes the reasons why, during his day, marriage was denied to many men and women in various sections of society ... In order to support themselves, he writes, thousands of women are driven to become victims of an immoral lifestyle or forced to seek jobs in households as governesses or teachers for inadequate pay"--Bookdealer's description

This second edition text provides an update on issues pertinent to women's legal status in the U.S. Highlighted are discussions of the ERA, sexual harassment and domestic violence, sex based discrimination, affirmative action and the equal pay for work of comparable worth concept.

International writers discuss how gender-identity ideology has affected every aspect of women's personal, professional and political lives. Also 35 Country Reports compare women's sex-based rights with those first set out in the CEDAW treaty.

"The well known essayist supports extending educational opportunities for women, but opposed the woman suffrage movement. She attacks the view that women are constitutionally weaker than men and limited to the domestic sphere. She calls for liberal education with open occupational opportunities. She did not believe that woman suffrage would solve the problem of economic discrimination and favored indirect political influence for women. Dodge was a teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary, later moving to Washington DC and writing under her pseudonym, Mary Abigail Dodge."--Description from Second Life Books, Inc., bookseller

Excerpt from Women's Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant The friendliness existing between women and clergymen, though not usually considered especially complimentary to either class, is a matter of common recognition. It is generally referred to with a certain half-bantering condescension, that sometimes scarcely stops short of a sneer. Yet this friendliness is in part, at least, founded on a law of human nature which it is not wise to overlook. Clergymen, whatever may be their theories about woman, are forced by the very exigencies of their profession to treat women as independent human beings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and the call for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecrafts work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrageWalpole called her a hyena in petticoatsyet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.