Alan Coffee (King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law; King's College London) has posted Mary Wollstonecraft and Wollstonecraftian Philosophy on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
I trace the development of one of Wollstonecraft’s central insights, that women’s natural and political rights can only be realised within a supportive cultural environment, into the nineteenth century. I do this by looking at the work of two other Wollstonecrafts, Nancy Kingsbury Wollstonecraft and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, as well as by examining the application of Wollstonecraftian ideas in abolitionist writing with regard to racial justice. Kingsbury develops a Wollstonecraftian line in addressing the question of why women appear not to take up the increasing number of educational opportunities available in the early nineteenth century, arguing that structural inequalities make it rational for women make the decisions they do. Shelley takes the republican framework that Wollstonecraft uses and tests it against a range of human failings such as selfish ambition, and factional loyalty and identity. Throughout the nineteenth century, abolitionists frequently made extensive use of Wollstonecraftian ideas. Frederick Douglass is one example. Harriet Jacobs adds a feminist and slave’s perspective particularly with respect to sexual violence and family relationships.
