Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021 Mary
Wollstonecraft's watershed contribution to theories of women's
human rights and her international reception by both Western and
non-Western intellectuals has ensured she continues to shape
contemporary human rights debates around the world. Bringing
together over 100 individual responses to Wollstonecraft's life and
work, Portraits of Wollstonecraft documents her international and
cross-cultural reception from the late 18th-century to the early
21st-century. Reflecting on over two centuries of responses to her
political ideas, writing, and philosophy, it counters the
persistent myth that she ceased to be read in the aftermath of the
publication of her husband William Godwin's scandalous posthumous
Memoirs of her life in 1798. Beginning with her earliest
portraiture and the first reviews of her published writings from
the late 1780s, Volume I traces her emergence as an international
public figure of women's rights in her life, work, and
philosophical, literary, and artistic reception throughout Britain,
Ireland, Continental Europe, North and South America, and across
the British Empire and its former colonies from Jamaica to India to
South Africa. Volume II focuses on Wollstonecraft's posthumous
philosophical, literary, and artistic reception, especially within
modern strands of feminism, by assembling responses from China,
Japan, and South Korea as well as writing by Mary Shelley, Emma
Goldman, Ruth Benedict, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty
Friedan, Susan Moller Okin, Barbara Johnson, Martha Nussbaum, and
Amartya Sen that discusses her theories of virtue, love, gender,
education, and rights. Bringing to light many forgotten accounts
and images of Wollstonecraft, pieces by major thinkers from across
the history of philosophy, and 31 annotated illustrations showing
her development into a feminist icon, Portraits of Wollstonecraft
achieves what no other work on Wollstonecraft has yet to do. This
comprehensive collection charts the depth and breadth of her
legacies for philosophy, political theory, ethics, literature, art,
and feminism on a global scale.
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