Mary Wollstonecraft : and the feminist imagination /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, Barbara, 1950 April 11-
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Feminism in literature.--Feminism -- History. > Feminism and literature.--Women and literature. > 1759-1797 > England.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The female philosopher
  • 2. The chimera of womanhood
  • 3. For the love of God
  • 4. Wollstonecraft and British radicalism
  • 5. Perfecting civilisation
  • 6. Gallic philosophesses
  • 7. Woman versus the polity
  • 8. The female citizen
  • 9. Jemima and the beginnings of modern feminism
  • Epilogue : the fantasy of Mary Wollstonecraft.

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