Ebook: Rousseau in drag : Deconstructing gender
Author: Kennedy Rosanne Terese
- Tags: Rousseau Jean-Jacques -- 1712-1778 -- Criticism and interpretation, Rousseau Jean-Jacques -- 1712-1778, Sex differences in literature, Gender studies gender groups -- c 1700 to c 1800, Social & cultural history -- c 1700 to c 1800, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 -- c 1700 to c 1800, Philosophy
- Series: Breaking Feminist waves
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- City: Basingstoke
- Language: English
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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. Read more...
Abstract: 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.
Rousseau in Dragis a provocative interpretation of Rousseau's gender politics. Rosanne Terese Kennedy reads Rousseau's well known but brief flirtation with cross-dressing as a starting point to dramatically reconsider the standard reading of Rousseau as a misogynist. This study argues that rather than a figure of misogyny, Rousseau challenges normative gender identites, the couple, and traditional kinship relations. Reading Rousseau's classical political and philosophical works alongside his literary texts, Kennedy offers us an alternative vision of both Rousseau's sexual politics and his politics in general