Nancy E. Johnson and Paul Keen, eds., Mary Wollstonecraft in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xxxiv+358 pp., 5 illustrations. US$110.00 (cloth).

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 572-579
Author(s):  
Susan J. Wolfson
Keyword(s):  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Cambridge University

THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-425
Author(s):  
JAN ELLEN LEWIS
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
The Family ◽  
Anglo American

Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)Ruth H. Bloch, Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003)Barbara Taylor entitles her new book Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination. The imagination in question is Wollstonecraft's, but, like Wollstonecraft, Taylor is interested in the imagination more generally, both the problems that the imagination gets women into and the ways in which the feminist imagination can get women out of those problems and help them imagine a more just and equitable future. Ruth H. Bloch's aim in Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800, the newly published collection of her essays, is somewhat more modest. Although her chief objective is to analyze the transformation in American views about women, gender, the family, and religion in the era of the American Revolution, she also offers case studies in the use of a culturalist approach to feminist history. Although there are important differences in approach and subject matter between these two books, their similarities and areas of overlap—not the least of which is that their authors are two of the best feminist intellectual historians at work today—make it instructive to review them together.

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