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Subject(s)

• Women's rights—Great Britain [Browse]
• Women—Education—Great Britain [Browse]

Related name

• Lynch, Deidre [Browse]

Series

• Norton critical edition [More in this series]
• A Norton critical edition

Summary note

"Backgrounds and Contexts," significantly expanded, contains twenty-four works, spanning a period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, that are organized thematically into four sections: "Legacies of English Radicalism," "Education, "Wollstonecraft's Revolutionary Moment," and "The Wollstonecraft Controversy." These writings, by John Milton, John Locke, Mary Astell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hannah More, and Edmund Burke, among others, bring to view the intellectual world that nurtured Wollstonecraft's political vision, the constructions of proper womanhood that she had to negotiate, and the controversy that her manifesto for a "revolution in female manners" ignited.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-402).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The text of A vindication of the rights of woman, with strictures on political and moral subjects
• Backgrounds and contexts. Legacies of English radicalism. From Paradise lost / John Milton ; From Second treatise of civil government / John Locke ; From Reflections upon marriage / Mary Astell
• Education. From Some thoughts concerning education / John Locke ; From A serious proposal to the ladies / Mary Astell ; From Emilius and Sophia; or, A new system of education / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; From A father's legacy to his daughters / John Gregory ; From Letters on education / Catharine Macaulay ; From Strictures on the modern system of female education / Hannah More
• Wollstonecraft's revolutionary moment. From A discourse on the love of our country / Richard Price ; From Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke ; From A vindication of the rights of men / Mary Wollstonecraft ; From An historical and moral view of the origin and progress of the French Revolution / Mary Wollstonecraft
• The Wollstonecraft controversy. From Review of A vindication of the rights of woman / Anonymous ; From Review of A vindication of the rights of woman / William Enfield ; The rights of woman / Anna Laetitia Barbauld ; From A vindication of the rights of brutes / Thomas Taylor ; From Letters and essays, moral and miscellaneous / Mary Hays ; From Memoirs of the author of A vindication of the rights of woman / William Godwin ; From The unsex'd females / Richard Polwhele ; From Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft / Mary Hays ; From Belinda / Maria Edgeworth ; From The letters of Shahcoolen / Benjamin Silliman ; From Appeal of one half the human race, women, against the pretensions of the other half, men / William Thompson
• Criticism. Radical politics in Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman / Elissa S. Guralnick ; Reform or ruin : "A revolution in female manners" / Mitzi Myers ; From Wild nights : pleasure/sexuality/feminism / Cora Kaplan ; [A vindication of the rights of woman and female sexuality] / Mary Poovey ; From The distinction of the sexes / Claudia L. Johnson ; The religious foundations of Mary Wollstonecraft's feminism / Barbara Taylor
• Mary Wollstonecraft : a chronology.

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ISBN

• 9780393929744 ((pbk.))
• 0393929744 ((pbk.))

LCCN

2008053411

OCLC

181139153

RCP

H - S

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