http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/mary-wollstonecraft Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 21 May 2026 16:47:24 -0400 Thu, 21 May 2026 16:47:24 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1352/the-development-of-modern-feminist-thought-a-summary By Saarang Narayan - This paper looks to trace three broad themes in the scholarship of feminism: the conceptualization of women as a socio-political category, the various ideas of women’s oppression, and the idea of emancipation. In particular, the work of four influential scholars—Mary Wollstonecraft, Friedrich Engels, Emma Goldman and Simone de Beauvoir—is used to provide a brief summary of the subject and its development. Each provides foundational ideas in the scholarship of feminism, in addition to representing the shifting discourse in the two major waves of feminism in modern history. Excerpts... Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:20 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1352/the-development-of-modern-feminist-thought-a-summary http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/301/female-writers-in-the-18th-century-the-power-of-imagination By Natasha L. Richter - Female writers of the Eighteenth Century often focused on the role of the female imagination in novel writing, poetry composition, and as an outlet for temporarily escaping a harsh world.  In Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft focused mostly on the latter notion, the ability of a woman to employ her imagination in transcending the physical prison of an insane asylum, as well as the metaphorical prisons of a tyrannical marriage and an oppressive world.  Meanwhile, Anna Letitia Barbauld emphasized the artwork which the female imagination can fashion in her poem “Washing... Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:10 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/301/female-writers-in-the-18th-century-the-power-of-imagination