The rights of women: reclaiming a lost vision

Introduction

1. Mary Wollstonecraft's moral vision

2. Men, marriage, law, and government

3. The young republic and the unequal virtues of the agrarian home

4. Women's suffrage, rational souls, sexed bodies, and the ties that bind

5. The Industrial Revolution and the debate between abstract rights and concrete duties

6. The "feminine mystique" and human work

7. Sex role stereotypes and the successful quest for equal citizenship status

8. Caring for dependency in the logic of the market

9. Sexual asymmetry, American law, and the call for a renewed family ecology

10. Reimagining feminism today in search of human excellence

Notes.