Mary Wollstonecraft and feminist republicanism
An edition of Mary Wollstonecraft and feminist republicanism (2016)
independence, rights and the experience of unfreedom
By Lena Halldenius
Publish Date
2016
Publisher
Routledge
Language
eng
Pages
175
Description:
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.