Gender and Citizenship : The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Culture EPUB
by Claudia Moscovici
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Moscovici proposes a new understanding of how gender relations were reformulated by both male and female writers in nineteenth-century France.
She analyzes the different versions of gendered citizenship elaborated by Friedrich Hegel, George Sand, Honore de Balzac, Auguste Comte and Herculine Barbin revealing a shift from a single dialectical (or male-centered) definition of citizenship to a double dialectical (or bi-gendered) one in which each sex plays an important role in subject-citizenship and is defined as the negation of the other sex.
Moscovici further argues that a double dialectical pattern of androgyny endows women with a (relational) cultural identity that secures their paradoxical roles as both representatives and outsiders to subject-citizenship in nineteenth-century French society and culture.
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- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date:10/05/2000
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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- ISBN:9780742581296