Author's introduction -- Dedicatory letter to M. Talleyrand-Périgord -- The rights and involved duties of mankind considered -- The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed -- The same subject continued -- observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes -- Animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contempt -- The effect which an early association of ideas has upon the character -- Modesty-comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual virtue -- Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation -- Of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society -- Parental affection -- Duty to parents -- On national education -- Some instances of the folly which the ignorance of women generates; with concluding reflections on the moral improvement that a revolution in female manners might naturally be expected to produce.
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