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Cover of Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism

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

  • Published: 6 Oct 2015
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781315653792
  • Print ISBN: 9781848935365
  • eBook ISBN: 9781315653792

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.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    1
    A Feminist Republican
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    2
    Liberty as Independence
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    3
    Rights
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    4
    Experiencing Unfreedom: The Stories of Three Women
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    5
    Acting Morally
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    6
    Revolution: The Political Circumstances of Action and Change
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    Liberation: Economic Independence and Civil Existence
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    Epilogue: A Feminist Without a Movement
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    Back Matter