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Berges Sandrine |
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Titolo |
The Routledge guidebook to Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman [[electronic resource] /] / Sandrine BergeĢs |
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London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-203-09418-2 |
1-299-15681-9 |
1-136-20528-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 pages) |
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Collana |
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The Routledge Guides to the Great Books |
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Disciplina |
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192 |
323.3/40941 |
323.340941 |
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Soggetti |
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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of woman |
Women -- Education -- Great Britain |
Women's rights -- Great Britain |
Women's rights - Education - Great Britain |
Women - Great Britain |
Gender & Ethnic Studies |
Social Sciences |
Gender Studies & Sexuality |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-192) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 slaves; Why there cannot be any |
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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 cages; Voluntary 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 |
Independence; A 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This Guidebook introduces: Wollstonecraft's life and the background to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The ideas and text of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft's enduring influence in philosophy |
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