GSWS 102- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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Ideological roots of socialist feminism lay in the popular democratic tradition of the late eighteenth century and in particular in the radical egalitarianism of the 1790s. Over the century voices had been raised on the behalf of women"s rights but it was only in the final decade of revolution and counter- revolution that these cohered into a distinct political position. Woman responsible for this development was feminist democrat. Wrote vindication of the rights of woman published in 1792. First pushed demand for female liberation into the mainstream. Mary wollstonecraft was supported throughout the late eighteenth century in her writings by teachers, parliamentary reformers, radical novelists, journalists, poets. Many of mary"s own london circle shared her feminist views. Both her husband william godwin and friend thomas holcroft attempted to enlist public support for mary"s ideas as did another friend thomas paine. Mary"s female acquaintances included anna barbauld and mary hays who also wrote essays on the position of women.
