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Mary Hays's 'Female Biography' - Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism (Hardcover)
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Mary Hays's 'Female Biography' - Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism (Hardcover)
Series: Historical Women's Writing
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The essays included in Mary Hays's 'Female Biography': Collective
Biography as Enlightenment Feminism emerge from the authors'
collaboration in producing the first modern edition of Hays's work
in the Chawton House Library Edition (2013, 2014). This book
explores Hays's larger ambitions to lay the foundation for an
encyclopaedic work by, for, and about women. The scholars'
contributions to this volume engage with some of the multiple
problems and possibilities that Female Biography presented. Drawing
on this effort, individual scholars examine Hays's attempts to
correct existing masculinist constructs which framed the 'universe
of knowledge' then and persist in our time. Hays perceived that
these had the cumulative effect of rendering women invisible. She
responded to such absence by providing examples of the extent of
female worth across Western society. Other contributions focus
specifically on the subjects of Hays's entries, looking at how she
used source material and laid the groundwork for future
biographical studies of women's lives. Both Female Biography and
Hays herself have continually presented difficulties in
categorization: not quite Enlightenment, not quite Victorian
either. This book recontextualizes her work, demonstrating the
radicalism and originality of her feminism, even in its
post-Wollstonecraftian phase, as well as the longevity of her
influence. As such, it will be of interest to those conducting
research into Hays, her subjects, and the evolution of life-writing
by women. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Women's Writing.
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