In diverse bijdragen wordt ingegaan op het leven, het werk en de theorieën van Mary Wollstonecraft. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Who was Mary Wollstonecraft? / door Maria J. Falco: Wollstonecraft and Rousseau: the gendered fate of political theorists / door Penny A. Weiss: Wollstonecraft, feminism, and democracy: 'being Bastilled' / door Virginia Sapiro: What can liberals learn from Mary Wollstonecraft / door Virginia L. Muller: Mary Wollstonecraft's 'wild wish': confoundling sex in the discourse on political rights / door Wendy Gunther-Canada: Mary Wollstonecraft and 'The body politic' / door Carol H. Poston: The vindication of the writes of women: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment rhetoric / door Myriam Brody: Mary Wollstonecraft and the problematic of slavery / door Moira Ferguson: Wollstonecraft, gender equality, and the Supreme Court / door Louise Byer Miller: Women's rights and human rights: intersection and conflict / door Dorothy McBride Stetson: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft: restoring the conversation / door Virginia Sapiro en Penny A. Weiss: 'The same subject continued': two hundred years of Wollstonecraft scholar ship / door Wendy Gunther-Canada.