Another version of this is Lady Macbeth's'Unsex me here', pleading to have her femininity taken away.
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Another prophesied that feminists would " unsex and unchristianize " women and lead America toward " the city of Sodom ."
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Often attacked for her politics, she has the distinction of having been mentioned by Richard Polwhele in " The Unsex'd Females ".
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"The Unsex'd Females " was originally published anonymously in London in 1798 by Cadell and Davies in a standalone, one volume edition.
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Re . the Wolcott appendix : it was highly political, so the implication is that the same audience would have found the " Unsex'd Females " congenial.
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"The Unsex'd Females " was " well known " among the responses to Wollstonecraft and her " A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ".
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In other cases, some have sought to unsex a word but found resistance : chairman went through chairperson, which sounded labored, to chair, which sounded four-legged, and then to chairwoman, which sounded too much like charwoman.
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Richard Polwhele targeted her in particular in his anonymous long poem " The Unsex'd Females " ( 1798 ), a defensive reaction to women's literary self-assertion : Hannah More is Christ to Wollstonecraft's Satan.
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No, rest assured that we have not been visited ( heaven forbid ) by " Macbeth : The Musical, " with peppy, kilt-clad Scotsmen kicking up their heels and Lady Macbeth purring, " Unsex me here " in song.
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This attitude which was to prevail throughout most of the nineteenth century was typified by writers like the Rev . Richard Polwhele, in his poem " The Unsex'd Females " ( 1798 ), although she escaped his personal criticism, being considered to have the proper attitude.
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