Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- The Debate on The Rights of Woman: Wollstonecraft's Influence on the Women Writers of Her Day -- Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Barbauld, and Equality Feminism -- The Two Marys: Hays Writes Wollstonecraft -- "Defects of Temper": Mary Wollstonecraft's Strategies of Self-Representation -- "Mistaken Notions of Female Excellence": Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of Virtue -- A Delicate Debate: Mary Wollstonecraft, the Bluestockings, and the Progress of Women -- Mary Wollstonecraft's Religious Characters -- A "Foretaste" of the Hereafter: Mary Wollstonecraft's Physio-Religious Sublime -- Hailing a New Man: The Rights of Women, Constructions of Masculinity and Solidarity -- Beyond Heterosexuality: Mary Wollstonecraft's Aesthetic Masculinity -- Author Biographies -- Index.