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Rousseau in Drag : Deconstructing Gender / by R. Kennedy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, Rosanne Terese.
- Series:
- Breaking Feminist Waves, 2945-7009
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Social history.
- Sex.
- Literature.
- European literature.
- Early Modern Philosophy.
- Social History.
- Gender Studies.
- European Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Early Modern Philosophy.
- Social History.
- Gender Studies.
- Literature.
- European Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through a series of close readings of most of Rousseau's major writings, this book provides a new interpretation of the eighteenth-century philosopher's sexual politics. The text argues that Rousseau's writings provide a critique of not only normative gender identity, but also normative familial and kinship relations.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Note on Rousseau Texts; Introduction; Rousseau in Drag; Feminist Readings of Rousseau; L'Amour à Trois; Structure of the Text; 1 Sexual/Political Inequality; The Nothingness of Nature; Society and Sexual Difference; Narcissism and the Waning of Pity; Instituting the Exchange of Women: The Levite of Ephraïm; The Prostitute; The Dedication; 2 The Arts: From the Letter to d'Alembert to The Reveries of the Solitary Walker; Rousseau in Love; Tragedy and Comedy; Paris and the Theater of "Love"; Geneva
- Reveries of the Solitary WalkerWriting New Fictions: Julie , or the Modern Romance Novel; 3 Postoedipal Desire: Reading the Ménage à Trois; Emile; Emile et Sophie, ou Les Solitaires; Julie, or the New Héloïse; Sophie d'Houdetot; Mme de Warens; 4 Autobiography: Writing the Self, Writing Gender; Reading Gender; Masochism; Heroic ("Masculine") Rebellions; Performing the "Feminine"; Exhibitionism: Nonphallic Desire; Homosexual Love; Refusing the Father (and the Brothers); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613440433
- 9781283440431
- 1283440431
- 9781137010629
- 1137010622
- OCLC:
- 775872900
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