{"product_id":"unmanly-citizens-jean-jacques-rousseaus-and-germaine-de-staels-subversive-women-paperback-1","title":"Unmanly Citizens: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Stael's Subversive Women - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLori Jo Marso\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 Sta?l. 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 H?lo?se\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 Sta?l 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, Sta?l demonstrates the limits of establishing strict identities as prerequisites for citizen participation. In Sta?l'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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.98 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704142786867,"sku":"9780801869228","price":59.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/fdKtkR7QNC9780801869228_c5d70641-fa52-40ff-b856-9e5d349a96e9.webp?v=1763348309","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/unmanly-citizens-jean-jacques-rousseaus-and-germaine-de-staels-subversive-women-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}