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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Maternal Body in The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria

Reed, Amanda Lynn
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton149278043398332

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2017, Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, English.
In my thesis I argue that Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria is a fictionalized sequel to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she presents the maternal body as an abled and functional body. I use Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s Feminist Disability Studies as a framework to examine the ways that Wollstonecraft fought against popular historical perceptions of women, such as Galen’s one-sex model, by using her characters, Maria and Jemima, and their relationships with the maternal body.
Rebecca Potter (Advisor)
38 p.
British and Irish Literature; Literature
Mary Wollstonecraft; The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria; Maternal body; Disability studies; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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  • Reed, A. L. (2017). Mary Wollstonecraft and the Maternal Body in The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton149278043398332

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Reed, Amanda. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Maternal Body in The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria. 2017. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton149278043398332.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Reed, Amanda. "Mary Wollstonecraft and the Maternal Body in The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton149278043398332

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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