Word: wollstonecraft
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...When feminist Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792, satirist Thomas Taylor responded with A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes. Taylor mocked the absurdity of studying women’s rights by suggesting this might one day lead scholars to take seriously the even zanier notion of animal rights. If this occurred, he warned, “government may be entirely subverted, subordination abolished...
...perfectly just society, and realization-focused comparisons, which compare levels of justice in societies. The former approach, advocated by Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, draws a clear line between the just and unjust while the comparative theory, influenced by the writings of Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft, discriminates between degrees of justice. A proponent of the realization-focused comparisons, Sen said he was skeptical that societies could ever agree on a single set of principles—a requirement of the transcendental theory. “Justice-enhancing changes demand comparative assessment, not any immaculate identification of the just...
...This is the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley fable with a mid-century American twist: What would happen if the Frankenstein monster were adopted by a really nice suburban mom? And if the villagers took a shine to the creature before being egged on to kill him? It's also Beauty and the Beast . Except that Edward's beauty is the beast - for most of the piece Kim pays scant attention to our hero - and, as incarnated by Depp or either of the men (Sam Archer and Richard Winsor) who dances Edward for Bourne, the beast is beautiful...
...twenty-first century’s status quo. Most of eighteenth-century society joined Taylor in smirking at Wollstonecraft’s folly, but some people dared to question the prevailing view that women did not deserve rights. Today, the animal liberation movement follows in the path of Wollstonecraft and other reformers, and PETA will tirelessly endeavor to persuade more and more people to put aside prejudice and dare to question the oppression of animals...
...heavy reading load won't surprise most English concentrators, and thought some of the more sexy standards have slipped in--Austen, Pope and Wollstonecraft--the rest is a spicy hodge-podge of theory, romance and out-and-out smut. Students can curl up with Onania one night and the next, with Pamela, a novel "suffused with palpitating breasts," according to Festa...