The Routledge guidebook to Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman [[electronic resource] /] / Sandrine Bergès

• Autore: Berges Sandrine
• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 pages)
• Disciplina: 192; 323.3/40941; 323.340941
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): BergáesSandrine
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Routledge guidebook to Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman
• ISBN: 0-203-09418-2; 1-299-15681-9; 1-136-20528-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463018003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books