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- Title
Hailing a New Man: The Rights of Women, Constructions of Masculinity and Solidarity.
- Authors
Rennhak, Katharina
- Abstract
Drawing on Louis Althusser's concept of interpellation and Judith Butler's theory of performative gender identity, this article claims that in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, Mary Wollstonecraft invests a lot of energy in constructing the male equivalent for her female ideal and in imagining a special kind of domesticity which is based on and enables cross-gender solidarity. It is suggested that Wollstonecraft employs a number of rhetorical and narrative strategies which serve to carve out a subject position for the new male ideal that her texts envision on the discursive level rather than on the level of content. While Wollstonecraft's alternative concept of masculinity is, thus, only vaguely conceptualized and defined, what can nevertheless be traced in Wollstonecraft's writings is the process of constructing a new masculine identity.
- Subjects
VINDICATION of the Rights of Woman, A (Book : Wollstonecraft); WRONGS of Woman: Or, Maria, The (Book); MASCULINITY; SOLIDARITY; WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary, 1759-1797
- Publication
Dialogue (15749630), 2014, Vol 17, p181
- ISSN
1574-9630
- Publication type
Essay