Gendered Community Rousseau, Sex, and Politics

Name: Gendered Community Rousseau, Sex, and Politics
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ISBN: 9780814792889

ISBN-10: 081479288X

ISBN-13: 9780814792889

Edition: 1995

Authors: Penny A. Weiss

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Clear, rich, and coherent, the book succeeds splendidly. --Choice In a thoughtful, lucid and graceful book, Penny Weiss shows how Rousseau's attempt to combine a sexual division of labor with a communitarian politics--as good a try as there ever was--cannot succeed. Weiss offers a convincing feminist reading of Rousseau, one that genuinely gives the other side of the gender equality argument, Rousseau's side, its due. --Jane Bennett, Goucher College Rousseau's writings reflect paradoxes and apparent inconsistencies with his principled commitments to freedom and equality. In this engrossing work, Penny Weiss wrestles with issues of gender in the works of Rousseau. Weiss attempts to resolve…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



Introduction: Gender, Rousseau, and Politics



Producing Gender: Sex, Freedom, and Equality in Rousseau's Emile



Anatomy and Destiny: Rousseau, Antifeminism, and Woman's Nature



Families and Politics: Sex Roles and Community



The Justice of Sex Roles: "Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques"



Rousseau and Feminist Revolution: The Impossibility of Gendered Community



Feminism and Communitarianism: Exploring the Relationship



Gender Bias in Political Theory: (Un)Seeing and (Un)Doing


Notes


Bibliography


Index