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Volume : IV, Issue : IV, May - 2014 FEMINISTPERSPECTIVE IN WOLLSTONECRAFT'S THOUGHTS OFTHE EDUCA TION OFDAUGHTERS Shubhra Jamwal, - By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : “I am going to be the first of a new genius. I am not born to tr end in the beaten track – the
peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.”
Mary Wollstonecraft in letter to Everina: 1774.
This brief note discusses that Mary W ollstonecraft was born into the Age of Enlightenment, but
was also considered a first generation romantic writer. The paper will focus on Mary Wollstonecraft's
Thoughts of the Education of Daughters. It will lay emphasis on how can be seen as a first feminist work
of the writer. The ideas set forth in this book are eminently commendable and remarkable only because it
was unusual in the eighteenth century for women, especially the young and unmarried, to have any ideas
to which to give expression. It is an attempt to illustrate the negative effects of the system of instruction
available to young girls in the eighteenth century . In Thoughts, W ollstonecraft offered neither a direct
attack on nor a complete revision of women's education— she did not even challenge woman's 'place' in
society . In fact, she encouraged women to become better mothers and wives. Stretching the theories,
perspectives, and composition of courtesy manuals of her day , Wollstonecraft's pattern of argument
remained “faithful to old principles” while extending those principles to women as well as improving on
the roles women were expected to fulfill. Through casuistic stretching, Wollstonecraft reasoned from the
familiar to the new , challenged through association and extension, and secured a position of credibility in
an age when credibility for women was scare.
T ags: role, rights, patriarchal, household, marriage, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Shubhra Jamwal, -(2014). FEMINISTPERSPECTIVE IN WOLLSTONECRAFT'S THOUGHTS OFTHE EDUCA TION OFDAUGHTERS. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. IV, Issue. IV, http://isrj.org/UploadedData/4781.pdf References :
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