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S/LI/407. Feminist philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft

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2009
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The paper examines the literaty activity of the Anglo-Irish feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft looking at her biography and reviewing the essay “Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. Wollstonecraft's idea about the difference between the biological concept of sex and the socially constructed concept of gender is argued explaining the inferior status imposed on women by society.

 

KEYWORDS: Feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman,

 
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