05230nam 22008053u 450 991082437690332120240131143508.00-203-09418-21-299-15681-91-136-20528-4(CKB)2670000000331323(EBL)1125263(OCoLC)828298565(SSID)ssj0000834076(PQKBManifestationID)11461914(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834076(PQKBWorkID)10936621(PQKB)10074876(MiAaPQ)EBC1125263(OCoLC)828884417(FINmELB)ELB135003(EXLCZ)99267000000033132320130418d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Routledge guidebook to Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman[electronic resource] /Sandrine BergèsLondon Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group2013Abingdon, Oxon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (209 pages)The Routledge Guides to the Great BooksDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-67415-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-192) and index.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; Conclusion4 Relative virtues and meretricious slaves; Why 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 timesQueens 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 marriageIndependence; 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; IndexMary 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 philosophyThe Routledge Guides to the Great BooksWollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of womanWomen -- Education -- Great BritainWomen's rights -- Great BritainWomen's rightsEducationGreat BritainWomenGreat BritainGender & Ethnic StudiesHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCGender Studies & SexualityHILCCWollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of woman.Women -- Education -- Great Britain.Women's rights -- Great Britain.Women's rightsEducationWomenGender & Ethnic StudiesSocial SciencesGender Studies & Sexuality192323.3/40941323.340941Berges Sandrine1691531Bergáes SandrineAU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910824376903321The Routledge guidebook to Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman4067979UNINA