Gender and Citizenship

The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Culture

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Claudia Moscovici

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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.

Author Biography:

Claudia Moscovici is assistant professor of humanities at Boston University. She is the author of From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects (Routledge 1996).

Release date NZ

May 10th, 2000

Author

Claudia Moscovici

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

160

Dimensions

147x229x12

ISBN-13

9780847696956

Product ID

2063064

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