Mary Wollstonecraft, Olympe de Gouges, Madame D'EoN, and a female Body

 Collaborator Sandrine Bergès has published an essay in the Times Literary Supplement. Reflecting on what it meant to be female in the late 18th century, Bergès draws on Mary Wollstonecraft's and Olympe de Gouges' conceptions of virtue, as well as their thoughts on education and motherhood, to find a place for embodiment which does not put biological reproduction front and centre, and which explains why these great defenders of women's rights have such admiration for Madame D'Eon, a figure from the 18th century who today would be recognized as a trans woman.