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Grim²³ ★ 14:21, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Actual name of statue

The best information I have is that the actual name of this statue is "Mother Of Feminism." Even the articles cited as sources in this wiki page agree with me, so why insist on calling it something else!? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Allthenamesarealreadytaken (talk • contribs) 08:04, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What's your best information based on, and which sources call the statue that? I can only see some that refer to Wollstonecraft herself as "mother of feminism". They all call the statue itself "A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft". --Lord Belbury (talk) 09:37, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A second monument for Mary

A crowd funding project has started raising money to build Martin Jennings' proposal, with his participation. I haven't been able to find a reference for this from a reliable secondary source, though. Ground Zero | t 13:12, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Resources

Lucy Bannerman in The Times. Is this what a feminist looks like? Row over nude Mary Wollstonecraft tribute
Rachel Campbell-Johnson in The Times. ‘Mother of feminism’ Mary Wollstonecraft is now the nude of Newington Green
Sue Hubbard in Artlyst. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Lumpen Statue
Artnews. Mary Wollstonecraft Monument in London Generates Controversy
Jacob Willer in The Critic. Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is simply bad art
Fortune. We are slowly getting more statues to honor great women—but why are some of them naked?
Carolina Miranda in the LA Times. Essential Arts: A beloved feminist gets a statue. The statue gets jeers
Mark Brown in The Guardian. Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured with statue after 200 years
Emma Evelyn Roberts in The Conversation. Mary Wollstonecraft statue: why public art should be collective, commemorative and embrace abstraction
Jerry Saltz in Curbed. The Mary Wollstonecraft Monument in London is Bad Kitsch Feminism
A comprehensive round-up from Lily Maynard. The Mary Wollstonecraft Statue – everything that’s wrong with modern feminism
Helen Lewis in The Atlantic. The Naked Feminist
New York Times Style Magazine. Why Are There So Few Monuments That Successfully Depict Women?
New York Times. A Naked Statue for a Feminist

Older:

Jonathan Jones in The Guardian, 2016. So many causes, so many heroes – why defame them with a statue?
Hackney Citizen, 2018. Campaigners announce winning design for Mary Wollstonecraft statue

--Carbon Caryatid (talk) 19:30, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]