Making an american feminist icon: Mary Wollstonecraft's reception in us newspapers, 1800-1869

• Autores: Eileen Botting
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 34, Nº 2, 2013, págs. 273-295
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article examines Mary Wollstonecraft's public reception in American newspapers from 1800 to 1869. Wollstonecraft was portrayed to the American public as a philosopher of women's rights, a new model of femininity, and a pioneer of women's political activism. Although these iconic uses of Wollstonecraft were regularly negative, they grew more positive as the women's rights movement gained steam alongside the abolition movement.