Mary Wollstonecraft and the accent of the feminine
By: Ashley Tauchert.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.; Sex differences (Psychology) in literature.; Femininity in literature.; Self in literature.
Description: "As the 'mother of feminism', Mary Wollstonecraft has been credited with establishing the terms for women's claims to equality on the grounds of reason at the end of the eighteenth century. However, if Irigaray's twentieth-century philosophy of sexual difference and subjectivity holds, the central feminist call for equality is put in a different light. This book poses the question of an intellectual colonization of women by an abstract maculinism passing itself as a universal.

At the potent intersection between European Enlightenment, political revolution, literary culture, Romanticism, and feminist theory, Wollstonecraft is a crucial figure for the millennial feminist Imaginary. Tauchert contends that, under the pressure of sexual difference theory, Wollstonecraft's writings reveal a movement between 'Athenic' and 'Matrilineal' modes of female subjectivity.

The argument poses some strong questions for women's literary history, critical analysis of women's writing, and our perception of this fascinating feminist icon."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-165) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I Remembering Elizabeth Dickson and; title: Fanny Blood; title: 1 Love between Women - Wollstonecraft's; title: Early Writings; title: Cherchez la mere; title: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787); title: Original Stories (1788); title: Mary: A Fiction (1788); title: Part II Female Embodiment and the Body-Politic; title: 2 Female Embodiment, Rape, and the Vindications; title: Vindicating masculine virtue; title: Ten thousand swords; title: Female-embodied reason; title: Leaving out the mother; title: Vindicating women: the problem that is women's; title: writing; title: This tumultuous passion; title: The phantom phallus; title: Part III Matrilineal Writing; title: 3 The Pregnant Writer: Historical and Moral; title: View of the French Revolution; title: The body of the people; title: Castrated and potent maternal bodies; title: 4 Matrilineal Writing: Letters from Sweden and; title: Wrongs of Woman; title: The story as of woman; title: Imported into another economy; title: Women are 'products' used and exchanged; title: by men; title: The murder of the mother results [in] the burial of; title: the madness of women - and the burial of women; title: in madness -; title: Speaking-among-women/speaking (as) woman; title: Feminist sublime where all foundations are called; title: into question; title: Letters from Sweden: my babe; title: The subject of matrilineal writing; title: Conclusion: Female Embodiment and Writing; title: beyond Wollstonecraft; title: Rape and intersubjectivity; title: Fantasies of the feminist in wet skirts; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.