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Three Women, Two Spheres, and A Contract: A Comparative Study of Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft Through the Lens of Carole Pateman's "The Sexual Contract"
<p>This project examines the writings of Mary Astell (1666-1731) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) regarding women in light of ideas articulated by Carole Pateman (1940- ) in her book, <em>The Sexual Contract</em> (1988). In her work, Pateman critiques the prescriptions for the management of …
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Female Bildung Before Goethe: An Early Modern Rogue's Endowment
… Writers like Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and Mary Astell engaged in unprecedented textual strategies that subverted their fixed and often challenged roles. Pamphlets affected the Early Modern landscape with liturgical language that would provide a dialogic tension in which these women engaged. …
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Women writers, religious rhetoric, and the origins of sensibility in England, 1660-1754
… I examine the work of Damaris Masham and Mary Collyer, two writers who frame the central issues of this study. In Chapter One I explore the anti-clerical writings of seventeenth-century Quaker Margaret Fell, whose arguments for women’s spiritual equality arise out of her attacks on the …