CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I The Beginnings of Emancipation[1]
II Woman’s Status, Past and Present[19]
III Institutional Marriage and Its Economic Aspects[56]
IV Woman and Marriage[93]
V The Economic Position of Women[157]
VI What is to be Done[207]
VII Signs of Promise[270]

CONCERNING
WOMEN

Let there be, then, no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.

Mary Wollstonecraft.