Feminist EconomicsVolume 11, Issue 1, 2005 |
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Original Articles
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary!
Abstract
It
is argued here that Mary Wollstonecraft's pioneering contributions to
the social sciences in general and to feminist studies in particular
deserve fuller recognition. Her critiques of the leading conventional
philosophers of her time, such as Edmund Burke, bring out the
distinctive nature of her approach, in which the deprivation of women is
linked with other social deprivations, and the roots of social progress
are seen not only in legislatitive change but through societal
processes involving the expansion and enrichment of basic education and
more public engagement on issues of inequality and neglect.
