Tauchert revisits the work of Mary Wollstonecraft through the lenses of sexual difference theory to pose the question of one woman's struggle against abstract masculinism. Caught between discourses of European Enlightenment, political revolution, Romanticism, and feminist theory, Wollstonecraft is central to Millenial feminism's self-imagining. Under the pressure of sexual difference theory, her writings reveal a movement between "Athenic" and "Matrilineal" modes of female subjectivity.

Ashley Tauchert is Lecturer in English, University of Exeter.