Gender and Citizenship

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

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, French, European
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Author: Claudia Moscovici ISBN: 9780742581296
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Publication: May 10, 2000
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Language: English
Author: Claudia Moscovici
ISBN: 9780742581296
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication: May 10, 2000
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English

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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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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