Tag Archives: Mary Wollstonecraft

suddenly mary

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: MONSTER UNLEASHED: Happy Birthday Mary Shelley 1797-1851 It was a “wet, ungenial summer” in Switzerland when Mary Godwin (traveling as “Mrs. Shelley”) went to Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley and their son, and Claire Clairmont … Continue reading →

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closing the sacredness gap

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Dave

There is a conjunction, a point of inflection between morality and emotion that translates itself into the political sphere in an almost predictable yet unsettling fashion. Its a zone where we can explain conservative electoral success while at the same … Continue reading →

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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE:GENDER BENDING & “LE SECRET”

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Dave

Perplexing could be the word. The Chevalier d’Eon could be said to have had a perplexing career. In France his name was a household word: of both masculine and feminine gender.  Voltaire once famously described the Chevalier as “A nice … Continue reading →

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BETWEEN MORAL PRETENSE & LURID SPECTACLE: A VERY CONTRARY MARY

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Dave

“And she took this leap while displaying the full measure of female unpredictablity, while the world watched, astounded, dismayed and outraged. This Mary was quite contrary, and her reputation over time, unsurprisingly, has suffered from this complexity. Surely we women … Continue reading →

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ATTENTION MEN:THEY MAY EAT YOUR LUNCH

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Dave

Once it is demonstrated that man and woman are not, and should not be constituted the same, either in character or in temperament, it follows that they should not have the same education. In following the directions of nature they … Continue reading →

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“REASONABLE CREATURES”:HOW DID THAT RUMOR GET STARTED?

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Dave

“While genius is a rare gift, according to most theorists the pool of human beings from which genius emerges includes only men. Rousseau, Kant, and Schopenhauer all declared that women possess characters and mentalities too weak to produce genius. This … Continue reading →

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