(Un)Manly citizens : Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Staël's subversive women
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(Un)Manly citizens : Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Staël's subversive women
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
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Unmanly citizens
Un-manly citizens
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-165) and index
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Political theorist Lori Marso explores an alternative vision of citizenship in the writings of French Enlightenment figures Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Germaine de Stael. This critique transgresses the boundary between political philosophy and literature in turning explicitly to fictional texts as the site of an alternative conception of self, citizenship and democratic politics. Marso departs from much feminist scholarship on Rousseau by reading "Emile" and "La Nouvelle Heloise" from the perspective of his women characters. Tracing the words, gestures and even the silence of the women characters in Rousseau's text, Marso argues that these women display an uncanny ability to deconstruct the qualities and dictates of scholarship for which Rousseau is infamous. Germaine de Stael builds on the perspective of Rousseau's women to uncover the radical potential of the feminine as a way to reconceptualize citizenship. Based on her experience of the French Revolution, Stael demonstrates the limits of establishing strict identities as prerequisites for citizen participation.
In Stael's novels, "Delphine" and "Corrine", Marso locates a citizenship practice premised on the recognition of individuals in terms of their concrete histories and situations.
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