Called to civil existence : : Mary Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman / / edited by Enit Karafili Steiner.

• Superior document: Dialogue ; 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Steiner, Enit Karafili.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Guft va gū ; 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), a continuation of her Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), was the first feminist treatise to emerge within a broader context of liberationist human rights theory. Rights of Woman remains, however, relevant and instructive....

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• The Debate on The Rights of Woman: Wollstonecraft’s Influence on the Women Writers of Her Day / Anne K. Mellor
• Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Barbauld, and Equality Feminism / Elizabeth Raisanen
• The Two Marys: Hays Writes Wollstonecraft / Gina Luria Walker
• “Defects of Temper”: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Strategies of Self-Representation / Fiore Sireci
• “Mistaken Notions of Female Excellence”: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of Virtue / Natalie Fuehrer Taylor
• A Delicate Debate: Mary Wollstonecraft, the Bluestockings, and the Progress of Women / JoEllen M. DeLucia
• Mary Wollstonecraft’s Religious Characters / Simon Swift
• A “Foretaste” of the Hereafter: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Physio-Religious Sublime / Molly Desjardins
• Hailing a New Man: The Rights of Women, Constructions of Masculinity and Solidarity / Katharina Rennhak
• Beyond Heterosexuality: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Aesthetic Masculinity / Dustin Friedman
• Author Biographies
• Index.