Eileen Hunt Botting, "Portraits of Wollstonecraft" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Eileen Hunt Botting is a Professor political science at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Botting is a widely published and cited scholar on the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft, the eighteenth-century author of\xa0A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. As editor of a two-volume collection,\xa0Portraits of Wollstonecraft\xa0(Bloomsbury Academic,2021),\xa0she offers primary sources of criticism, literature and representation in portraiture, from the early international reception to Wollstonecraft\u2019s present global influence. Through well curated selections, we see Wollstonecraft in new light. From the iconic portrait painted by John Opie in 1797, to Sarah A. Underwood\u2019s essay\xa0Heroines of Free Thought\xa0in 1876, to references by modern feminists including Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and the artist Judy Chicago, the reader discovers the many implications of Wollstonecraft\u2019s ideas. This two-volume collection is sure to be of interest to anyone curious about Wollstonecraft\u2019s contribution to political philosophy, literature, and feminist thought.\nLilian Calles Barger\xa0is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her most recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her current writing project is on the intellectual history of women and the origins of feminism seen through the emblematic life and work of Simone de Beauvoir.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies