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.

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University of Alberta, Canada

Gary Kelly

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Book Title: Revolutionary Feminism
Book Subtitle: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft
Authors: Gary Kelly
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22063-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-22065-6Published: 01 January 1992
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-22063-2Published: 10 June 1992
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 249
Topics: Feminism, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

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