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The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A Vind...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge guides to the great books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series editor's preface; Author preface; 1 The first of a new genus; The life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century: a feminist journey?; Plan of the book; 2 The rights of woman and national education; Reading the first pages; A Vindication as a treatise on education; Republicanism and the revolution in A Vindication; Reason and the Enlightenment; Conclusion; 3 Brutes or rational beings?; Un-gendered reason; Either friends or slaves; The superiority of men; Conclusion.
- 4 Relative virtues and meretricious slavesWhy there cannot be any female (or male) virtues; The historical plausibility of looking for Aristotelian arguments in Wollstonecraft's works; Some straightforward Aristotelian aspects of Wollstonecraft's theory: habituation and the perfectibility of human nature; Wollstonecraft on the emotions; Virtue as a mean: chastity; Virtue and wisdom: bashfulness versus modesty; Chastity and modesty in the twenty-first century: an anachronism?; Conclusion; 5 Abject slaves and capricious tyrants; Women without virtue; Sensibility: a sickness of the times.
- Queens in cagesVoluntary submission 1: Condorcet; Voluntary submission 2: Mill; Wollstonecraft and Sen's adaptive preferences; Conclusion; 6 Angels and beasts; A cross between a rant and a literature review; Rousseau and Madame de Stael; The women
- the conservatives and the republicans; Today's feminists and Wollstonecraft; 7 Taste and unclouded reason; Virtue and etiquette; A question of manners; A fondness for Redcoats; A good reputation; Taste: moral and aesthetic virtues; 8 Rational fellowship or slavish obedience? Love, marriage and family; Woman in society; Love and marriage.
- IndependenceA woman's place; Good parenting; Bad parenting; 9 Concluding reflections; A conflicted ending; School of morality; Peculiar duty of their sex; As all readers are not sagacious ... ; Notes; Bibliography; Index.