瑪麗．吳爾史東克拉芙特（1759- 1797）在幾週的時間內，決定著作《為人權辯護》和《為女權辯護》這兩本書。她為什麼在寫了第一本關於權利的著作後，會想要繼續寫第二本？筆者將嘗試探討這兩本著作中的關連。
在吳爾史東克拉芙特論述婦女權利（甚至是全部人類權利）時，她辯論政治理論中理性和美德的性別化建構，筆者認為這位女性主義的先驅，作為一位權威的思想家，是與洛克與盧梭具有並列地位的。然而，雖然筆者承認吳爾史東克拉芙特的著作基本上已經遭到主流政治理論思想家的忽略，但是筆者在這篇論文，將對為什麼吳爾史東克拉芙特在政治思想的對話中遭到忽視的原因，提出些許的分析和解釋；以說明為什麼吳爾史東克拉芙特的作品，沒有被列入重要著作名單中？筆者提出這位革命性的婦女，是應該授予其曾論述政治權利的身份。
除了她對於政治理論的論述，她亦挑戰的父權的思維以爭取婦女的公民身份。因此，當任何一個人企圖閱讀吳爾史東克拉芙特的文本，或是嘗試發現傳統自由主義女性主義的問題時，都會發現過去和現代之間牽涉複雜的對話。
筆者的這篇論文不預設能對這些陳述的問題，提供正確的解答。不過，透過它確實可以使我們對於吳爾史東克拉芙特作品中的議題，得到瞭解以及產生共鳴；像是她處理政治中性別差異的問題、她意識到性別特徵和羅曼蒂克的裝置、她熱情的致力於理性的信念，並且和她關於人類啟蒙計畫的觀點，也與今日婦女公民身份的取得產生關連。更冷靜的來看，她的論述主張釐清了西方女性主義傳統在吳爾史東克拉芙特之前，婦女受到的排除和不公正對待的嚴重情況得到證實；並且，她的主張也提醒我們注意，當我們期望更包容和寬廣的理論時，我們必須擺脫腦中既有的成見。

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759- 1797) wrote both A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman within a matter of weeks. Why she wants to write the second book about rights continued from the preceding one? I would try to probe into the correlations between these two works.
In her argument for women’s rights (even all human being’s rights), Wollstonecraft contested the gendered construction of reason and virtue in political theory. I situate the pioneering feminist as a canonical thinker alongside Locke and Rousseau. Yet, although I admit that Wollstonecraft’s works have been largely been overlooked by mainstream political theorists, in this paper my analysis will offer little explanation as to why Wollstonecraft has been marginalized within the conversation of political thought. To explain why Wollstonecraft’s works has not been included in the canon I pose the question of how this revolutionary woman was authorized to write about political rights.
In addition to her perspectives of politics, she also challenged the idea of contemporary patriarchy to fight for women’s citizenship. Therefore, Complex conversations between past and present are involved in any attempt to read Wollstonecraft’s texts or to find the problems of traditional liberal feminism.
My study makes no pretension to offer answers to pressing problems. It does, however, provide insights into how present concerns make us resonant to themes in Wollstonecraft’s writing, such as her dealing with the politics of gender difference, her awareness of sexuality and romance, her passionate wrestling with reason, and the relevance of her version of the Enlightenment humanist project to women’s citizenship today. On a more somber note, her proposition makes clear how much exclusion and subjugation of women has taken place within Western feminist tradition from Wollstonecraft onwards and how attentive we need to be to decolonizing the thinking in our own heads while we dream of liberating wider theory.

第一章 緒論
第一節 研究動機與目的
第二節 文獻探討
第三節 研究方法與章節架構

第二章 相關權利思想之背景
第一節 Mary Wollstonecraft之思想發展
一､ 早年生活
二､　創作生活之開啟
三、　「辯護」著作的形成
第二節 十八世紀之社會背景
一､　相關理論著述之背景
二､　相關之共和背景
第三節 時代中的非主流論述

第三章 為人權辯護
第一節 為普萊斯辯護
第二節 嚴詞批評柏克
第三節 權利問題的提出和討論
一､　信仰和德行
二､　政治和社會
三､　性別

第四章 為女權辯護
第一節 嚴詞批評盧梭
第二節 個人、家庭到國家
一､　從個人到社會人
二､　從私領域到公領域
三､　公民權的產生
第三節 對早期女性權利意識形成的影響

第五章 來自女性主義內部的思考
第一節 女性走入公領域
第二節 女性主義對Wollstonecraft思想的討論：
Wollstonecraft’s Dilemma
一､　女性主義，平等、差異、主體
二､　女性主義，種族、階級
三､　女性主義，婚姻、家庭
第三節 啟蒙真的帶來婦女之解放了嗎？

第六章 結論
附錄一　Mary Wollstonecraft大事年表
附錄二　Mary Wollstonecraft個人著作

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