A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman

232 Ruth Abbey This explains Wollstonecraft’s understanding of morality or virtue, terms she seems to use interchangeably. In go ...

Are Women Human? 233 reconceived, too. Indeed, the Rights of Woman’s penultimate chapter “On National Education” outlines some p ...

234 Ruth Abbey extend rights to women is that their current education (in both senses) pro- hibits them from cooperating with “t ...

Are Women Human? 235 molishing. Hence her bold hope that “the divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may... i ...

236 Ruth Abbey wives and mothers but also poor candidates for rights. Ignorant, weak, de- pendent, and frivolous, they are also ...

Are Women Human? 237 fulfi ll; but they are human duties, and the principles that should regulate the discharge of them... must ...

238 Ruth Abbey embodied humans in two forms — male and female. But when it comes to the soul, sex is irrelevant: only the body i ...

Are Women Human? 239 defending such goods as freedom of speech, press, and assembly, and ha- beas corpus, rights are designed to ...

240 Ruth Abbey inclusive of women’s needs and experiences (Okin 1998a, 34 –35). This movement illustrates very practically that ...

Are Women Human? 241 will make them more effective wives and mothers, so a change in what is notionally the public sphere will h ...

242 Ruth Abbey tunities as, and diminishing their dependence upon, men will allow them “to feel the dignity of a rational will t ...

Are Women Human? 243 This is not to suggest that every dimension of Wollstonecraft’s defense of rights for women fi nds an echo ...

244 Ruth Abbey Taylor (2003, 53, 58) attributes to Wollstonecraft a capacious, rather than Cartesian, conception of reason that ...

Are Women Human? 245 Every corps in a standing army also exhibits this dual character of both slave and tyrant (42). A handful ...

“Genius will educate itself.” The British Literary Context of Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Its Lega ...

“Genius will educate itself.” 247 ten became personal. Most adjusted their expectations — or at least spoke and acted in accorda ...

248 Norma Clarke The Bluestockings Elizabeth Montagu launched her salons for serious talk, which marked the beginnings of the bl ...

“Genius will educate itself.” 249 3:117). Clara Reeve, whose popular The Old English Baron (1778) was one of the earliest histor ...

250 Norma Clarke and letters as individuals to be admired to the point of worship. Montagu, Carter, Barbauld, Elizabeth Griffi t ...

“Genius will educate itself.” 251 higher social groupings and with conservative fi gures who came to her salon in Portman Square ...