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1. Introduction 1. Introduction
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2. Wollstonecraft’s Ideal of Independence 2. Wollstonecraft’s Ideal of Independence
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3. Nancy Kingsbury Wollstonecraft and Education 3. Nancy Kingsbury Wollstonecraft and Education
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4. Mary Shelley and the Destabilizing Role of Human Passions 4. Mary Shelley and the Destabilizing Role of Human Passions
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5. Harriet Jacobs, Race, and Radical Social Reform 5. Harriet Jacobs, Race, and Radical Social Reform
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References References
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Notes Notes
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Mary Wollstonecraft and Wollstonecraftian Philosophy
Get accessAlan Coffee teaches Global Ethics and Human Values at King’s College London. He is the author of Mary Wollstonecraft (Polity, forthcoming) and the co-editor of The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (OUP, with Sandrine Bergès) and The Wollstonecraftian Mind (Routledge, with Sandrine Bergès and Eileen Hunt Botting). He has also written on Nancy Kingsbury Wollstonecraft (Journal of the History of Philosophy), Mary Shelley (Washington Post) and several pieces on Frederick Douglass.
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Published:18 July 2023
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Abstract
This chapter traces the development of one of Wollstonecraft’s central insights, that women’s natural and political rights can only be realized in a supportive cultural environment, into the nineteenth century. It does this by looking at the work of two other Wollstonecrafts, Nancy Kingsbury Wollstonecraft and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and by examining the application of Wollstonecraftian ideas about racial justice in abolitionist writing. Kingsbury develops a Wollstonecraftian line in addressing the question of why women appear not to take advantage of the increasing number of educational opportunities becoming available to them in the early nineteenth century, arguing that structural inequalities make it rational for women to make the decisions they do. Shelley takes the republican framework that Wollstonecraft uses and tests it against a range of human failings, such as selfish ambition and factional loyalty and identity. Throughout the nineteenth century, abolitionists frequently made extensive use of Wollstonecraftian ideas. Frederick Douglass is one example. Harriet Jacobs adds the perspective of a feminist and slave, particularly with respect to sexual violence and family relationships.
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