A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft. (book reviews)

As one of the very few women close to the political theory canon, Mary Wollstonecraft is a figure to whom feminist scholars repeatedly refer as they work out issues central to the feminist politics of their time. Virginia Sapiro points out, however, that "there is little indication that anyone who played a key role in women's history or feminism, other than Lucretia Mott, read Wollstonecraft's work seriously after her death until the twentieth century" (p.

277). It is only since the 1970s that Wollstonecraft's work has attracted sustained attention and criticism. Sapiro's ...

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