UK social theorist and feminist. Drawn into radical politics by the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft was part of a creative and intellectual circle that included her husband,the anarchist William Godwin. She died giving birth to her daughter Mary, who later married the poet Shelley and wrote Frankenstein. Wollstonecraft's feminism drew upon an Enlightenment liberal belief in reason and radical humanist commitment to equality. She stressed the equal rights of women, especially in education, on the basis of the notion of 'personhood'. However, her work developed a complex analysis of women as the objects and subjects of desire, and also presented the domestic sphere as a model of community and social order.
Source: Political Ideologies: An Introduction, by Andrew Heywood (1992).
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