CONTENTS

  1. Acknowledgments ·     vii
  2. Introduction     1
  3. CHAPTER 1    What She Liked and Loved    12
  4. The Theater     14
  5. Painting     21
  6. Music     27
  7. Poetry     35
  8. Nature     45
  9. Reading     50
  10. Love and Friendship     53
  11. Concluding Reflections     62
  12. CHAPTER 2    Who Are We? What Are We Made Of?    65
  13. The Unity of Humanity     65
  14. Slavery     69
  15. Human Nature     73
  16. The Imagination     81
  17. Memory     91
  18. Sensory Experience and the Association of Ideas     92
  19. Reason     95
  20. Mind, Body, and Soul     100
  21. The Will     103
  22. The Passions, the Appetites, and Emotions     105
  23. Concluding Reflections     108
  24. CHAPTER 3    What Went Wrong? The World as It Was    112
  25. Evil and Perfection     114
  26. Writing the History of Civilization     122
  27. The State of Nature and First Societies     126
  28. Rank and Womanhood     134
  29. Burke’s Reflections     142
  30. Burke, Wollstonecraft, Appearing and Being     146
  31. Dependence     148
  32. The Many Consequences of Inheritance     153
  33. Property and Appearance     155
  34. Idleness     160
  35. Inequality or Vanity?     162
  36. Concluding Reflections     164
  37. CHAPTER 4    What She Wished and Wanted    166
  38. Writing for Society as It Is and for Society as It Ought to Be     166
  39. A New Idea of Woman, but Also of Man     167
  40. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, Patriotism, and the Progress of Civilization     174
  41. The Limits of Education     178
  42. The Enlightened World of the Future     184
  43. Commerce and the Division of Labor     185
  44. Rank and Luxury     188
  45. Effeminacy and Vanity     191
  46. The Virtues     193
  47. Marriage, Sex, and Friendship     197
  48. In Sum     203
  49. The World to Come     205
  50. CHAPTER 5    A Life Unfinished    209
  51. Bibliography ·     213
  52. Index ·     221