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Marso departs from previous feminist scholarship on Rousseau by reading Emile and La Nouvelle Heloise from the perspective of his women characters. In this reading, Sophie and Julie emerge as subversive of the narrow range of femininity usually understood as advocated by Rousseau. Tracing the words, gestures, and even the silence of the women characters in Rousseau's texts, Marso argues that these women display an uncanny ability to deconstruct the qualities and dictates of scholarship for which Rousseau is infamous.
Germaine de Stael builds on the perspective of Rousseau's women to uncover the radical potential of the feminine as a way to reconceptualize citizenship. Based on her experience of the French Revolution, Stael demonstrates the limits of establishing strict identities as prerequisites for citizen participation. In Stael's novels, Delphine and Corinne, Marso locates a citizenship practice premised on the recognition of individuals in terms of their concrete histories and situations. Marso's scholarship makes us aware of how early in the history of modern political thought the potential of an unmanly vision of citizenship as a radical critique of politics was already being discussed and formulated.
Author: Lori Jo Marso
ISBN-10: 0801869226
ISBN-13: 9780801869228
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1999
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.08w x 0.50d
Lori Jo Marso is an assistant professor of political philosophy and feminist theory at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
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