Wollstonecraft's daughters : womanhood in England and France, 1780-1920
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Wollstonecraft's daughters : womanhood in England and France, 1780-1920
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This work explores Mary Wollstonecraft's 19th-century legacy in relation to three themes integral to her work: the nature of motherhood, religion and the empowerment of women, and women's contribution to the sciences of "man". The introduction provides a comparative framework for French and English women and situates each essay within current historical debates. Subjects include Woollstonecraft's problematic reputation and its gradual rehabilitation; the role of the aristocratic Victorian political hostess; the philanthropy of French Catholic women; Catholic feminism; and anthropology, and the contrast of Albertine Necker de Saussure to Rousseau's ideals.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - cross-Channel perspectives, Clarissa Campbell Orr
- Mary Wollstonecraft - a problematic legacy, Pam Hirsch
- a Republican answers back - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albertine Necker de Saussure, and forcing little girls to be free, Clarissa Campbell Orr
- writing history for British women - Elizabeth Hamilton and the "Memoirs of Agrippina", Jane Rendall
- politics without feminism - the Victorian political hostess, K.D. Reynolds
- woman supportive or woman manipulative? the "Mrs. Ellis woman", Henrietta Twycross Martin
- Mary Wollstonecraft and Flora Tristam - one pariah redeems another, Maire Fedelma Cross
- "saintes soeurs" and "femmes fortes" - alternative accounts of the route to womanly civic virtue, and the history of French feminism, Hazel Mills
- Maria Rye - the primrose path, Marion Diamond
- anthropological analogies - Edith Simcox and Madeleine Pelletier, Felicia Gordon
- Wollstonecraft's daughters, Marianne's daughters and the daughters of Joan of Arc - Marie Maugeret and Christian feminism in the French belle epoque, James F. McMillan.
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