{"id":28633,"date":"2026-09-21T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=28633"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:08:42","slug":"spotlight-on-research-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2026\/spotlight-on-research-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Research: Professor Julie Murray has published a new book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Spotlight on Research: Professor Julie Murray has published a new book\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/literary-studies-and-literature\/mary-wollstonecraft-against-modernity?tab=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity<\/a>, Professor Julie Murray exposes Western feminism\u2019s internal contradictions. Published in June by Stanford University Press, Murray&#8217;s study recovers a Wollstonecraft who feels uncertain about the progressive\u00a0modernity she is otherwise entirely identified with as champion and cheerleader. Revealing that feminism and global modernity have been at odds for over two hundred years, Murray reclaims Wollstonecraft as an astute critic of Western feminism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1007\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/09\/Spotlight-on-Research-September-2026-J.-Murray-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28634\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6713299096865593;width:791px;height:auto\" role=\"none\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/09\/Spotlight-on-Research-September-2026-J.-Murray-book.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/09\/Spotlight-on-Research-September-2026-J.-Murray-book-512x763.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/09\/Spotlight-on-Research-September-2026-J.-Murray-book-320x477.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2026\/09\/Spotlight-on-Research-September-2026-J.-Murray-book-768x1144.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her new book, Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity, Professor Julie Murray exposes Western feminism\u2019s internal contradictions. Published in June by Stanford University Press, Murray&#8217;s study recovers a Wollstonecraft who feels uncertain about the progressive\u00a0modernity she is otherwise entirely identified with as champion and cheerleader. Revealing that feminism and global modernity have been at odds for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":28634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[144,33,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-publications","category-news","category-sor"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28635,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633\/revisions\/28635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}