#wollstonecraft — Public Fediverse posts

Read A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary #Wollstonecraft at http://write.atspace.cc/writers-cramp/, then Eminent Writing Two from the menu. Wollstonecraft argues that women deserve rational education and fundamental rights equal to men. Responding to eighteenth-century theorists who advocated only domestic education for women, she challenges the view of women as ornaments or property. Instead, she insists women are human beings who should be companions to their husbands and educated contributors to society. A ground breaking essay. #SeminalEssays

Among lessons being cut from school curricula in the US is #Wollstonecraft https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/06/slavery-was-wrong-5-other-things-educators-wont-teach-anymore/

Not only did Mary #Wollstonecraft visit Ireland and like it, she was an important influence on #DanielOConnell

A liberal who corresponded with Jeremy #Bentham for a time and tirelessly campaigned against slavery & for Catholic Emancipation, and Repeal, O'Connell sent his children to the school of Wollstonecraft's sister in Dublin.

Daniel O’Connell’s philosophical influences
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/15/modern-prometheus-oconnell/

O'Connell as Frankenstein's monster
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw206038/Political-Frankensteins--Alarmed-at-the-progress-of-a-Giant-of-their-own-Creation

#IrishPhilosophy

RT @JoeHumphreys42 on Twitter

[Wollstonecraft]'s breakthrough work "A Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790) was ironically an attack on TCD grandee #EdmundBurke who she lambasted with a fair dose of anti-Irish sentiment and reverse sexism.

UCD's Katherine O’Donnell explains here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/was-ireland-s-most-prominent-philosopher-too-womanly-1.3498724

Link to Katherine O’Donnell's paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336239122_Effeminate_Edmund_Burke_and_the_masculine_voice_of_Mary_Wollstonecraft

The full thread https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeHumphreys42/status/1620820823673282560

#IrishPhilosophy #Wollstonecraft

I'm looking for some readings on #Beauvoir, women's situation and bad faith, to compare to #Wollstonecraft. Any recs? I've combed through the @SDB_Studies already but may have missed something.

Re#Introduction with hashtags! I’m a #Romantodon pretending to be a #Victodon because I like all the #dinosaurs - I work on #Romantic writers like #Wollstonecraft, #Austen, and #Coleridge and also enjoy #Gothic fiction and #ChildrensLiterature - currently I’m working on taking #RomanticStudies from the #sublime to the #ridiculous, as a way of thinking about crises of #nature, #society, and #childhood as #collectives rather than individuals - I still mostly toot #CatPics #CatsOfMastodon

Fun 1st job of the day was recording my bit for the #ChawtonHouse #audiobook of Mary Wollstonecraft’s brilliant 1798 novel, The Wrongs of Woman or Maria. This is a fundraiser to buy the posthumous works of #Wollstonecraft for the Library. It took me 3 takes as my guinea pigs tried to join in on first 2. Kudos to audiobook narrators. I did 5 mins. Imagine narrating Middlemarch…

200. Todestag: The Masque of Anarchy - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Heute vor 200 Jahren ertrank der britische Dichter und Atheist Percy Bysshe #Shelley. Der mit Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Tochter der #Frauenrechtlerin Mary #Wollstonecraft und des Philosophen William #Godwin und spätere Autorin des bekannten Romans #Frankenstein verheiratete Shelley hatte stets ein kritisches Auge auf die sozio-ökonomischen Umstände des frühindustriellen #England und die damit verbundenen politischen Unruhen: