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Revolutionary Feminism

The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft

by Gary Kelly

Published 1996264 pagesISBN 978-0-3121-2904-0

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--revolutionary 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.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Philosophy, Nonfiction, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Philosophy · Nonfiction · Fiction

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Reading lengthA standard-length read264 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1996
Primary categoryPhilosophyAlso cataloged under Nonfiction and Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3121-2904-0
Language
English
Edition record
OL9597127M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Philosophy, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

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Three questions to carry with you

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  3. What remains unresolved—and is that uncertainty useful?

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