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- Title
Friendship in the Life and Work of Mary Wollstonecraft: The Making of a Liberal Feminist Tradition.
- Authors
Pedersen, Joyce Senders
- Abstract
In her Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft praised friendship as the ideal and most sublime relationship. This essay examines the idea of friendship in Wollstonecraft's life and work, exploring how this idea evolved in tandem with her political views and self-understanding. Anchored in protestant and liberal outlooks and values, Wollstonecraft's understanding of friendship always included a shared inner life as well as an exchange of practical services. Holding forth the possibility of a 'politics of friendship' involving alliances amongst like-minded individuals that transcended differences of sex, her ideal of friendship can be seen as one of her legacies to the feminist tradition.
- Subjects
WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary, 1759-1797; FRIENDSHIP; FRIENDSHIP in literature; VINDICATION of the Rights of Woman, A (Book : Wollstonecraft); FEMINISM; LIBERALISM; SOCIAL conditions of women; WOMEN'S rights; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Literature & History, 2008, Vol 17, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0306-1973
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.7227/LH.17.1.3