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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778927903321

Autore

Kennedy R

Titolo

Rousseau in Drag [[electronic resource] ] : Deconstructing Gender / / by R. Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-44043-1

9786613440433

1-137-01062-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Breaking Feminist Waves

Disciplina

848.509

848/.509

Soggetti

Modern philosophy

Social history

Sociology

Literature

European literature

Modern Philosophy

Social History

Gender Studies

Literature, general

European Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.