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Rousseau in Drag : Deconstructing Gender.

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 normati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kennedy, Rosanne Terese
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Colección:Breaking feminist waves.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Note on Rousseau Texts; Introduction; Rousseau in Drag; Feminist Readings of Rousseau; L'Amour à Trois; Structure of the Text; 1 Sexual/Political Inequality; The Nothingness of Nature; Society and Sexual Difference; Narcissism and the Waning of Pity; Instituting the Exchange of Women: The Levite of Ephraïm; The Prostitute; The Dedication; 2 The Arts: From the Letter to d'Alembert to The Reveries of the Solitary Walker; Rousseau in Love; Tragedy and Comedy; Paris and the Theater of "Love"; Geneva
  • Reveries of the Solitary WalkerWriting New Fictions: Julie , or the Modern Romance Novel; 3 Postoedipal Desire: Reading the Ménage à Trois; Emile; Emile et Sophie, ou Les Solitaires; Julie, or the New Héloïse; Sophie d'Houdetot; Mme de Warens; 4 Autobiography: Writing the Self, Writing Gender; Reading Gender; Masochism; Heroic ("Masculine") Rebellions; Performing the "Feminine"; Exhibitionism: Nonphallic Desire; Homosexual Love; Refusing the Father (and the Brothers); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index