SOURCE: "Nasty Tricks and Tropes: Sexuality and Language in Mary Wollstonecraft's Rights of Woman," Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 32, No. 2, Summer 1993, pp. 177-210.
In this essay, Furniss examines Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman in an attempt to understand her feminism, at least in part, as an extension of the middle-class struggle for the "rights of man" and the establishment of a bourgeois society—both of which, Furniss claims, problematize Wollstonecraft's relevance to contemporary social issues.
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