Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau / / ed. by Lynda Lange.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bradshaw, Leah,; Butler, Melissa A.,; Harper, Anne,; Kofman, Sarah,; Kukla, Rebecca,; Lange, Lynda,; Makus, Ingrid,; Marso, Lori J.,; Moller Okin, Susan,; Morgenstern, Mira,; Ormiston, Alice,; Tuana, Nancy,; Weiss, Penny,; Wiestad, Else,; Wingrove, Elizabeth,; Wittig, Monique,; Zerilli, Linda,
• HerausgeberIn: Lange, Lynda,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Re-Reading the Canon
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 p.)

A progenitor of modern egalitarianism, communitarianism, and participatory democracy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher whose deep concern with the relationship between the domains of private domestic and public political life has made him especially interesting to feminist theorists, but also...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Rousseau and Modern Feminism
• 2 Rousseau's Political Defense of the Sex-Roled Family
• 3 Rousseau on Civic Virtue, Male Autonomy, and the Construction of the Divided Female
• 4 The Fate of Rousseau's Heroines
• 5 Women, Power, and the Politics of Everyday Life
• 6 Developing a Feminist Concept of the Citizen: Rousseauian Insights on Nature and Reason
• 7 Empowerment Inside Patriarchy: Rousseau and the Masculine Construction of Femininity
• 8 The Politics of ''Feminine Concealment'' and ''Masculine Openness'' in Rousseau
• 9 Rousseau and the Politics of Care
• 10 Rousseau's Phallocratic Ends
• 11 Rousseau's Subversive Women
• 12 ''Une Maitresse Imperieuse'': Woman in Rousseau's Semiotic Republic
• 13 Republican Romance
• 14 The Coupling of Human Souls: Rousseau and the Problem of Gender Relations
• 15 On the Social Contract
• Select Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index