Mary Wollstonecraft, Pedagogy, and the Practice of Feminism

ISBN-13: 9780415893350 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 198 str.

Kirstin Hanley

Opis

This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft - generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement - by shedding light on her relationship to eighteenth-century instructional literature and its influence on educational theorists of her day, and feminist pedagogy in particular.

Spis treści

Introduction: Mary Wollstonecraft, Pedagogy, and the Practice of Feminism 1. Original Stories and Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: Revising the Rules of Conduct 2. Re-Educating The Female Reader 3. Maternal Solitude, Misogyny, and Mincing No Words in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 4. Rationalizing Domesticity through Letters amd early Lessons 5. Mary and Maria: Women Without Teachers 6. A Troubling Legacy: Wollstonecraft's Female-Centered Pedagogy and the Sacrifice of Irrational Womanhood Conclusions: Educating Eliza and Wollstonecraftian Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century

O autorze

Kirstin Collins Hanley is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at SUNY Fredonia, USA.