| Gender and Citizenship: The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Culture Contributor(s): Moscovici, Claudia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0847696952 ISBN-13: 9780847696956 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $41.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: Claudia 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 suject-citizenship and is defined as the negation of the other sex. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Feminist |
| Dewey: 840.935 |
| LCCN: 99087268 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.87" W x 8.97" (0.50 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
