(Un)Manly Citizens

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Stael's Subversive Women

By: Lori Jo Marso

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Paperback | 16 March 2002

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In (Un)Manly Citizens, 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.

Marso departs from previous feminist scholarship on Rousseau by reading Emile and La Nouvelle H lo se 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.

Germaine 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, Delphine and Corinne, 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.

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""Marso enterprisingly finds in Staël's novels a direct political alternative to the Revolution's manly citizenship, one defying rigid hierarchy and not excluding private loyalties from its conception of the general will. Marso's is a ground-breaking, mind-altering reading of Staël as a political thinker.""

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory Politics & Government History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800

Regional & National History European History Literary Studies of Fiction Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Social Groups Gender Studies

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
A Note on Translations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
(Re)examining the Feminine Presence	p. 29
The Dangerous Insider	p. 52
The Loving Citizen	p. 79
Theorizing Women's Desire	p. 108
Conclusion	p. 128
Notes	p. 139
References	p. 159
Index	p. 167
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(Un)Manly Citizens

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Stael's Subversive Women

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