Mary Wollstonecraft and the Problematic of Slavery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3946237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moira Ferguson, Moira M Ferguson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Issue | 42 |
| Pages | 82 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1395131 |
| OpenAlex | W4230808339 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 11 |
In 1790 Mary Wollstonecraft became a major polemicist for the first time because of her evolving political analysis and social milieu. In contrast to A Vindication of the Rights of Men in 1790, which drew primarily on the language of natural rights for its argument, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman favored a discourse on slavery that foregrounded female subjugation. The composition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman started in the midst of these tumultuous events, its political ingredients indicating Wollstonecraft's involvement in all the issues. Furthermore Wollstonecraft's usage of colonial slavery as a reference point for female subjugation launches a new element into the discourse on women's rights. It is no coincidence, then, that Charlotte Smith in Desmond and Mary Hays in Memoirs of Emma Courtney criticize colonial slavery along with discussions of women's rights; following Mary Wollstonecraft, they use slavery as the premier sign of the antithesis of individual freedom
Feminism · Human sexuality · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Psychology · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
The Influence of Ben Jonson's Volpone on Mary Wollstonectaft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
Feminist Misogyny
Women and Unfree Labour in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Back to the Future
Back to the Future
From revolutionary Paris to Nootka Sound to Saint-Domingue
The Fictional Suicides of Mary Wollstonecraft
Across disciplines, languages, and nations
Slavery, the French revolution, and Condorcet’s childhood argument
Mary Wollstonecraft on Motherhood and Political Participation
Freedom as Independence
Wollstonecraft in Jamaica
Wollstonecraft’s Gothic Violence
Mary Wollstonecraft, Social Constructivism, and the Idea of Freedom
A Nação Contraditada
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament
The Black Jacobins
The Image of Africa
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
First Feminists
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen
White Over Black
Sinews of Empire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Negro
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |