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1 online resource (267 pages) |
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Continuum Library of Educational Thought |
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Continuum library of educational thought
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; Part 1 Intellectual Biography; Chapter 1 Revolutionary Self-Education; A. Wollstonecraft's Philosophical Landscape (1787-92): Writing to Educate; B. Monarchist Home Landscapes (1759-83): Learning to Survive and Refuse Abuse; C. Educational Landscapes (1784-7): Learning to Educate; D. Revolutionary World and Home Landscapes (1792-7): Learning to Love Again; E. The Landscape of Educational Thought: Opposing Sex Segregation; Notes; Part 2 Exposition of the Work |
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Chapter 2 Coeducational ThoughtA. Coeducational Thought, Gender and Genre; B. Recent Philosophical Readings of Wollstonecraft's Reason-Emotion Problem; C. Primary Sources for Exposition of Wollstonecraft's Coeducational Thought; Chapter 3 Monarchist Miseducation; A. The Divine Right of Kings as an Educational Principle; B. Monarchist Hidden Curriculum and 'Sexual Character'; C. Laisser-Faire Education under the Divine Right of Parents; Chapter 4 Republican Coeducation; A. The Divine Source of Moral Education for All, Including Women; B. Republican Coeducation and 'Sexual Character' |
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C.A National Coeducational SystemNotes; Part 3 Reception and Influence of the Work; Chapter 5 Coeducational Thought After Wollstonecraft; A. Private Reception: Afflicted Childrearing; B. Public Reception: Sexual-Character Defamation; C. Coeducational Thought's Growth to Maturity; Notes; Part 4 Relevance of the Work; Chapter 6 The Art of Coeducational Thought; A. The Arts Coeducation Gap; B. Wollstonecraft's Visual Biography; C. Landscapes of Character Formation and the Coeducation-for-Childrearing Gap; Notes; Bibliography; A. Works of Mary Wollstonecraft |
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B. Primary Works of Coeducational ThoughtC. Other Primary Sources; E. Biographies; F. Other Sources Consulted; Index |
| Summary |
Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independent womanhood to write engaging letters, fiction, history, critical reviews, handbooks and treatises. Her work on coeducational thought was a major early modern influence upon the development of a post-Enlightenment tradition, and continues to have vital relevance today. Celebrated as an early modern feminist, abolitionist and socialist philosopher, Wollstonecraft had little formal schooling, but st |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
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| SUBJECT |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. fast (OCoLC)fst00029129 |
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Educators -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography
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Feminists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Coeducation -- Great Britain -- History
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Biography: general.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Authors, English.
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Coeducation.
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Educators.
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Feminists.
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Great Britain.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441143532 |
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144114353X |
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