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"Blending biography, gender theory, and political analysis, Gunther-Canada charts Mary Wollstonecraft's transformation from female reader to pioneer feminist author. She shows how Wollstonecraft's pathbreaking A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and other works confronted traditional notions of femininity and authority and provided the first systematic argument for women's political rights.". "Rebel Writer shows how Wollstonecraft's political ideology guided her personal life - she bore a child out of wedlock and later married amid scandal - and how her attempts to unite the personal and the…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2001Northern Illinois University Press · 203 pages · 9780875802800
EnlightenmentWollstonecraft, mary, 1759-1797Political and social viewsContributions in political scienceContributions in feminismContributions in women's rightsPolitical scienceFeminism