{"product_id":"unmanly-citizens-jean-jacques-rousseaus-and-germaine-de-staels-subversive-women-9780801869228","title":"Unmanly Citizens: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Stael's Subversive Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e(Un)Manly Citizens\u003c\/i\u003e, political theorist Lori Jo Marso explores an alternative vision of citizenship in the writings of French Enlightenment figures Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Germaine de Staël. This critique transgresses the boundary between political philosophy and literature in turning explicitly to fictional texts as the site of an alternative conception of the self, citizenship, and democratic politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarso departs from previous feminist scholarship on Rousseau by reading \u003ci\u003eEmile\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLa Nouvelle Héloïse\u003c\/i\u003e from the perspective of his women characters. In this reading, Sophie and Julie emerge as subversive of the narrow range of femininity usually understood as advocated by Rousseau. Tracing the words, gestures, and even the silence of the women characters in Rousseau's texts, Marso argues that these women display an uncanny ability to deconstruct the qualities and dictates of scholarship for which Rousseau is infamous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermaine de Staël builds on the perspective of Rousseau's women to uncover the radical potential of the feminine as a way to reconceptualize citizenship. Based on her experience of the French Revolution, Staël demonstrates the limits of establishing strict identities as prerequisites for citizen participation. In Staël's novels, \u003ci\u003eDelphine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCorinne\u003c\/i\u003e, Marso locates a citizenship practice premised on the recognition of individuals in terms of their concrete histories and situations. Marso's scholarship makes us aware of how early in the history of modern political thought the potential of an unmanly vision of citizenship as a radical critique of politics was already being discussed and formulated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lori Jo Marso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.08w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801869228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLori Jo Marso \u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of political philosophy and feminist theory at Union College in Schenectady, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41065998516339,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ef1923be-a768-4084-a916-c1a8342d91bf.jpg?v=1698932566","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/unmanly-citizens-jean-jacques-rousseaus-and-germaine-de-staels-subversive-women-9780801869228","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}