Mary Wollstonecraft Contributor(s): Laird, Susan (Author), Bailey, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472504860 ISBN-13: 9781472504869 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $49.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2007037921 |
Series: Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independent womanhood to write engaging letters, fiction, history, critical reviews, handbooks and treatises. Her work on coeducational thought was a major early modern influence upon the development of a post-Enlightenment tradition, and continues to have vital relevance today. Celebrated as an early modern feminist, abolitionist and socialist philosopher, Wollstonecraft had little formal schooling, but still worked as a governess, school-teacher and educational writer. This succinct critical account of that prolific research begins by recounting her revolutionary self-education. Susan Laird explains how Wollstonecraft came to criticize moral flaws in both men's and women's private education based on irrational assumptions about 'sexual character' under the Divine Right of Kings. It was to remedy those moral flaws of monarchist education that Wollstonecraft theorized her influential, but incomplete, concept of publicly financed, universal, egalitarian coeducation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Laird, Susan: - Susan Laird is Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Oklahoma, USA. She is also Immediate Past President of the Philosophy of Education Society; Faculty Adviser of theÂÂ Oklahoma Educational Studies Association; and Co-Founder for EDUCATING WOMEN: A Community of Learning & Inquiry into Women, Gender, and Education.Bailey, Richard: - Richard Bailey is a writer and researcher in education and sport. A former teacher in both primary and secondary schools and a teacher trainer, he has been Professor at a number of leading Universities in the UK. He now lives and works in Germany. |