Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft

by Gary Kelly

Overview

Revolutionary feminism grew out of the cultural revolution that founded the modern state in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. That cultural revolution responded to the revolution in France, and at the center of both revolutions was the question of the rights and duties of women. Mary Wollstonecraft's mind and career were shaped in response to these revolutions, leading her to formulate a feminism for her time firevolutionary feminism. This book describes the growth of Wollstonecraft's mind and career, and examines all her writings as experiments in revolutionizing writing in terms of her revolutionary feminism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349220656
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	1st ed. 1992
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction: Gender, Class and Cultural Revolution - Creating A Voice: Self, Social Conflict and Writing - `The First of a New Genius': Professional Life and Women's Writing - From the Rights of Man to Revolutionary Feminism - `A Revolution in Female Manners': A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - From Revolutionary Feminism to Revolutionary Paris - `A Solitary Wanderer': Revolutionary Feminist Travel - Novelising Revolutionary Feminism: Love, Marriage and the Wrongs of Woman - Index