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Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Lynda Lange
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A progenitor of modern egalitarianism, communitarianism, and participatory democracy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher whose deep concern with the relationship between the domains of private domestic and public political life has made him especially interesting to feminist theorists, but also has made him very controversial. The essays in this volume, representing a wide range of feminist interpretations of Rousseau, explore the many tensions in his thought that arise from his unique combination of radical and traditional perspectives on gender relations and the state.Among the topics addressed by the contributors are the connections between Rousseaus political vision of the egalitarian state and his view of the natural role of women in the family Rousseaus apparent fear of the actual danger and power of women important questions Rousseau raised about child care and gender relations in individualist societies that feminists should address the founding of republics the nature of consent the meaning of citizenship and the conflation of modern universal ideals of democratic citizenship with modern masculinity, leading to the suggestion that the latter is as fragile a construction as the former.Overall this volume makes an important contribution to a core question at the hinge of modernism and postmodernism how modern, egalitarian notions of social contract, premised on universality and objective reason, can yet result in systematic exclusion of social groups, including women.
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A progenitor of modern egalitarianism, communitarianism, and participatory democracy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher whose deep concern with the relationship between the domains of private domestic and public political life has made him especially interesting to feminist theorists, but also has made him very controversial. The essays in this volume, representing a wide range of feminist interpretations of Rousseau, explore the many tensions in his thought that arise from his unique combination of radical and traditional perspectives on gender relations and the state.Among the topics addressed by the contributors are the connections between Rousseaus political vision of the egalitarian state and his view of the natural role of women in the family Rousseaus apparent fear of the actual danger and power of women important questions Rousseau raised about child care and gender relations in individualist societies that feminists should address the founding of republics the nature of consent the meaning of citizenship and the conflation of modern universal ideals of democratic citizenship with modern masculinity, leading to the suggestion that the latter is as fragile a construction as the former.Overall this volume makes an important contribution to a core question at the hinge of modernism and postmodernism how modern, egalitarian notions of social contract, premised on universality and objective reason, can yet result in systematic exclusion of social groups, including women.
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