Mary Wollstonecraft : Philosophical Mother of Coeducation.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part 1 Intellectual Biography -- Chapter 1 Revolutionary Self-Education -- A. Wollstonecraft's Philosophical Landscape (1787-92): Writing to Educate -- B. Monarchist Home Landscapes (1759-83): Learning to Survive and Refuse Abuse -- C. Educational Landscapes (1784-7): Learning to Educate -- D. Revolutionary World and Home Landscapes (1792-7): Learning to Love Again -- E. The Landscape of Educational Thought: Opposing Sex Segregation -- Notes -- Part 2 Exposition of the Work -- Chapter 2 Coeducational Thought -- A. Coeducational Thought, Gender and Genre -- B. Recent Philosophical Readings of Wollstonecraft's Reason-Emotion Problem -- C. Primary Sources for Exposition of Wollstonecraft's Coeducational Thought -- Chapter 3 Monarchist Miseducation -- A. The Divine Right of Kings as an Educational Principle -- B. Monarchist Hidden Curriculum and 'Sexual Character' -- C. Laisser-Faire Education under the Divine Right of Parents -- Chapter 4 Republican Coeducation -- A. The Divine Source of Moral Education for All, Including Women -- B. Republican Coeducation and 'Sexual Character' -- C. A National Coeducational System -- Notes -- Part 3 Reception and Influence of the Work -- Chapter 5 Coeducational Thought After Wollstonecraft -- A. Private Reception: Afflicted Childrearing -- B. Public Reception: Sexual-Character Defamation -- C. Coeducational Thought's Growth to Maturity -- Notes -- Part 4 Relevance of the Work -- Chapter 6 The Art of Coeducational Thought -- A. The Arts Coeducation Gap -- B. Wollstonecraft's Visual Biography -- C. Landscapes of Character Formation and the Coeducation-for-Childrearing Gap -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A. Works of Mary Wollstonecraft -- B. Primary Works of Coeducational Thought.

C. Other Primary Sources -- E. Biographies -- F. Other Sources Consulted -- Index.

Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independent womanhood to write engaging letters, fiction, history, critical reviews, handbooks and treatises. Her work on coeducational thought was a major early modern influence upon the development of a post-Enlightenment tradition, and continues to have vital relevance today. Celebrated as an early modern feminist, abolitionist and socialist philosopher, Wollstonecraft had little formal schooling, but still worked as a governess, school-teacher and educational writer. This succinct critical account of that prolific research begins by recounting her revolutionary self-education. Susan Laird explains how Wollstonecraft came to criticize moral flaws in both men's and women's private education based on irrational assumptions about 'sexual character' under the Divine Right of Kings. It was to remedy those moral flaws of monarchist education that Wollstonecraft theorized her influential, but incomplete, concept of publicly financed, universal, egalitarian coeducation.

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