Title
Mary Wollstonecraft and the maternal body in The wrongs of woman, or Maria
Date of Award
2017
Degree Name
M.A. in English
Department
Department of English
Advisor/Chair
Advisor: Rebecca C. Potter
Abstract
In my thesis I argue that Mary Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria is a fictionalized sequel to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she presents the maternal body as an abled and functional body. I use Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's Feminist Disability Studies as a framework to examine the ways that Wollstonecraft fought against popular historical perceptions of women, such as Galen's one-sex model, by using her characters, Maria and Jemima, and their relationships with the maternal body.
Keywords
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Wrongs of woman, Human body in literature, Body image in women, Disability studies, Literature, British and Irish Literature, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, Maternal body, Disability studies, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Rights Statement
Copyright 2017, author
Recommended Citation
Reed, Amanda, "Mary Wollstonecraft and the maternal body in The wrongs of woman, or Maria" (2017). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 1259.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/graduate_theses/1259
