Mary Wollstonecraft in Context ed. by Nancy E. Johnson and Paul Keen, and: Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics by Sylvana Tomaselli (review).
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Maione, Angela
- Source
- Eighteenth-Century Studies. Summer2022, Vol. 55 Issue 4, p553-555. 3p.
- Subject
- *POLITICAL science
*PRACTICAL politics
*POLITICAL science writing
*POLITICAL philosophy
*MENTORING
- Language
- ISSN
- 0013-2586
David Fallon's piece on Wollstonecraft's publisher offers a tender portrayal of the man who supported Wollstonecraft personally as well as professionally. Readers may be surprised to find that "feminist" is among those labels that Tomaselli rejects for Wollstonecraft: she asserts that whether Wollstonecraft should be counted a feminist or not is debatable. Though Tomaselli reserves for Wollstonecraft the description of a philosopher, she eschews other labels that have all too often been affixed to Wollstonecraft only to becloud her thought and distract from her life's work. [Extracted from the article]