One very minor sub-plot of the reception of eighteenth-century feminism is that Mandeville and Toland, who often embrace quite feminist themes, get no love from the great women that followed them whereas Adam Smith is praised highly by Wollstonecraft, Grouchy, and Martineau.
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Adam Smith on Witchcraft and Mercantilism
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One very minor sub-plot of the reception of eighteenth-century feminism is that Mandeville and Toland, who often embrace quite feminist themes, get no love from the great women that followed them whereas Adam Smith is praised highly by Wollstonecraft, Grouchy, and Martineau.