Gender and Citizenship
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Gender and Citizenship

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

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Gender and Citizenship

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

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship
  8. 1. Theoretical Foundations: Doubling the Dialectic
  9. 2. The Social Model of Citizenship: Comte’s A General View of Positivism
  10. 3. Gendered Spheres in Balzac’s La Cousine Bette
  11. 4. Exemplary Androgyny in Sand’s Indiana
  12. 5. Gender Trouble in the Diary of Herculine Barbin: Unreading Foucault
  13. Conclusion: Androgyny and the Chiasmic Economy of Sexual Difference
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. About the Author