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The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, Erika Bachiochi

The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, Erika Bachiochi The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 2023, 68, 83–89 Book Review Book Review The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, Erika Bachiochi. University of Notre Dame Press, 2021 Erika Bachiochi, in her groundbreaking book The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, makes novel contributions to feminist thought, rooted in the concerns of the earliest women’s rights advocates. First, Bachiochi gives us a more complete account of the legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft, an eighteenth-century philosopher whose insights on virtue, politics, and the family shaped the first feminists and hold promise for our contemporary political debates. Bachiochi’s careful analysis makes way for a second original argument: that in Wollstonecraft, we find a healthy corrective to flaws in modern feminism, particularly (for Bachiochi) its coupling of women’s equal- ity with abortion rights. Third, by finding a present-day Wollstonecraftian approach in the scholar- ship of Harvard Law professor emerita Mary Anne Glendon, Bachiochi offers common ground for feminists of all stripes, something hard to find in the wake of Dobbs (the Supreme Court’s recent reversal of Roe v. Wade). The Rights of Women’s crucial challenge to a prevailing narrative, accessi- ble to any educated reader, should be central to any college or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Jurisprudence Oxford University Press

The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, Erika Bachiochi

Girgis, Gabrielle M
American Journal of Jurisprudence , Volume 68 (1): 7 – Feb 7, 2023
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The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 2023, 68, 83–89 Book Review Book Review The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, Erika Bachiochi. University of Notre Dame Press, 2021 Erika Bachiochi, in her groundbreaking book The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, makes novel contributions to feminist thought, rooted in the concerns of the earliest women’s rights advocates. First, Bachiochi gives us a more complete account of the legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft, an eighteenth-century philosopher whose insights on virtue, politics, and the family shaped the first feminists and hold promise for our contemporary political debates. Bachiochi’s careful analysis makes way for a second original argument: that in Wollstonecraft, we find a healthy corrective to flaws in modern feminism, particularly (for Bachiochi) its coupling of women’s equal- ity with abortion rights. Third, by finding a present-day Wollstonecraftian approach in the scholar- ship of Harvard Law professor emerita Mary Anne Glendon, Bachiochi offers common ground for feminists of all stripes, something hard to find in the wake of Dobbs (the Supreme Court’s recent reversal of Roe v. Wade). The Rights of Women’s crucial challenge to a prevailing narrative, accessi- ble to any educated reader, should be central to any college or

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