Reason and Sensibility: The Ideal of Women's Self-Governance in the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft

Hypatia 8 (4):35 - 55 (1993)
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Abstract

It is standard in feminist commentaries to argue that Wollstonecraft's feminism is vitiated by her commitment to a liberal philosophical framework, relying on a valuation of reason over passion and on the notion of a sex-neutral self. I challenge this interpretation of Wollstonecraft's feminism and argue that her attempt to articulate an ideal of self-governance for women was an attempt to diagnose and resolve some of the tensions and inadequacies within traditional liberal thought.

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