Wollstonecraft's Philosophical Impact on Nineteenth-Century American Women's Rights Advocates

Autor: Christine Carey, Eileen Hunt Botting
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: American Journal of Political Science. 48:707-722
ISSN: 1540-5907
0092-5853
DOI: 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00097.x
Popis: This article challenges the thesis that the publication of William Godwin's scandalous Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1798 minimized the philosophical impact of Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 work the Rights of Woman in nineteenth-century American political thought. Instead, we demonstrate that leading nineteenth-century American women's rights advocates—Hannah Mather Crocker, Lucretia Mott, Sarah Grimke, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony—understood themselves to be in a critical, philosophical dialogue with the text of the Rights of Woman, and in some cases, the Memoirs, and defined their own, distinctive philosophies of sex equality partly within this context.
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