Called to civil existence : Mary Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman /

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), a continuation of her earlier Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), was the first feminist treatise to emerge within a broader context of liberationist human rights theory. Rights of Woman remains, however, relevant and instr...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Steiner, Enit Karafili (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 2014
Series:Guft va gū ; 17.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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 SublimeHailing a New Man: The Rights of Women, Constructions of Masculinity and Solidarity; Beyond Heterosexuality: Mary Wollstonecraft's Aesthetic Masculinity; Author Biographies; Index.