SOURCE: Davidson, Jenny. “‘Professed Enemies of Politeness’: Sincerity and the Problem of Gender in Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Studies in Romanticism 39, no. 4 (winter 2000): 599-615.
In the following essay, Davidson compares Wollstonecraft's treatment of insincerity in politics and social life in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with William Godwin's less gendered political arguments in An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice.
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