Mary Wollstonecraft is a writer whose work continues to provoke scholarly debate. Halldenius explores Wollstonecraft's political philosophy, focusing on her treatment of republicanism and independence, to propose a new way of reading her work - that of a `feminist republican'.

Lena Halldenius is professor of human rights at Lund University. She has published articles in political philosophy and the history of political thought in journals including British Journal for the History of Philosophy, History of Political Thought and European Journal of Political Theory. Recent work on Mary Wollstonecraft includes 'Mary Wollstonecraft's Feminist Critique of Property. On Becoming a Thief From Principle' in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (2014).