relationship with Imlay and the existence of their illegitimate child, as well as disclosing other relationships and private details of Wollstonecraft’s life. These unfortunately portrayed her as licentious in the eyes of her contemporaries, and as a woman ruled by her passions in spite of her aspirations to Reason in the eyes of later generations. (answers.com)

One of the great ironies of Wollstonecraft’s legacy is that her Vindication of the Rights of Women became associated with the flouting of social conventions, primarily in relation to marriage. Though she did not agree with marriage as it was practiced by her contemporaries, she was nonetheless a proponent of marriage if it was a marriage of equals, and much of her work expounded on ways in which men and women could make their marriages stronger and longer lasting. (SEP)

Martha Nussbaum

Born in New York City in May of 1947, Martha Nussbaum, is a contemporary American philosopher with a focus on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics. She is the current Ernst Freud Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and additionally holds Associate appointments in Classics and Political Science. She has taught at Harvard and Brown Universities, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies and a Board Member of the Human Rights Program. She has produced more than a dozen publications and edited thirteen books. (law.uchicago.edu) Nussbaum received her Bachelor of Arts in 1969 from New York University where she studied theatre and classics. She mov