Mary and the Wrongs of Women - Softcover

Mary Wollstonecraft

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9780192815279: Mary and the Wrongs of Women

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ISBN 10: 019281527X ISBN 13: 9780192815279

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1991

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Both of Wollstonecraft's novels criticize what she viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage and its deleterious effects on women. In her first novel, Mary: A Fiction, the eponymous heroine is forced into a loveless marriage for economic reasons; she fulfills her desire for love and affection outside of marriage with two passionate romantic friendships, one with a woman and one with a man. Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman novel published posthumously and often considered Wollstonecraft's most radical feminist work, revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband; like Mary, Maria also finds fulfillment outside of marriage, in an affair with a fellow inmate and a friendship with one of her keepers. Neither of Wollstonecraft's novels depict successful marriages, although she posits such relationships in the Rights of Woman.

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Mary Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and early feminist.

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