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Mary Wollstonecraft : and the feminist imagination /
"In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. In the most in-depth study to date of Wollstonecraft's thought, Bar...
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| Materialtyp: | Printed Book |
| Språk: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Sammanfattning: | "In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. In the most in-depth study to date of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Wollstonecraft's feminist aspirations, Taylor shows, were part of a revolutionary programme for universal equality and moral perfection that reached its zenith during the political upheavals of the 1790s but had its roots in the radical-Protestant Enlightenment. Drawing on all Wollstonecraft's works, and locating them in a vividly detailed account of her intellectual world and troubled personal history, Taylor provides a compelling portrait of this fascinating and profoundly influential thinker."--Jacket. |
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| Beskrivning: | Mary Wollstonecraft has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. Drawing on all Wollstonecraft's works, and locating them in a detailed account of her intellectual world and troubled personal history, this 2003 book provides a compelling portrait of this profoundly influential thinker. |
| Fysisk beskrivning: | xvi, 331 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |