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Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism : Independence, Rights and the Experience of Unfreedom

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Summary, in English

Mary Wollstonecraft is a writer whose work continues to provoke scholarly debate. But Wollstonecraft the historical figure often obscures her importance as a philosopher. Halldenius explores Wollstonecraft’s political philosophy, focusing on her treatment of republicanism and independence, to propose a new way of reading her work – that of a ‘feminist republican’. Wollstonecraft’s works of fiction and non-fiction are analysed and the use of her own experience of a lack of freedom (the lot of an eighteenth-century woman) is examined as a valid line of philosophical enquiry and not – as others have viewed them – as a form of autobiography.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Publication/Series

The Enlightenment World

Volume

30

Document type

Book

Publisher

Pickering & Chatto

Topic

  • Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Keywords

  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • freedom
  • liberty
  • independence
  • rights
  • republicanism
  • feminism
  • revolution
  • representation
  • morality
  • women
  • sex equality

Status

Published

Project

  • Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism
  • Lund Human Rights Research Hub

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781848935365