Journal
JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES
Volume 28, Issue 7, Pages 766-776Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2019.1660150
Keywords
Mary Wollstonecraft; feminist theory; historiography; religion; secularism; teleology
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Religious concepts and themes are central to many of Mary Wollstonecraft?s writings, yet rarely feature within popular representations of her life, work and legacy today. This paper examines the forgetting of Wollstonecraft?s religiosity in light of the broader narratives that western feminism circulates about its past and present, focusing particularly on the historiographical practices and temporal tropes that construct feminism as a quintessentially secular project. It also considers the potentially transformative impact that unforgetting Wollstonecraft?s religiosity could have within feminist historiography and politics in the present, in terms of parochializing the political certitude of secular feminism and the politics of division conducted in its name.
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