Gendered Community: Rousseau, Sex, and Politics

by Penny A. Weiss

Book Overview

Rousseau's writings reflect paradoxes and apparent inconsistencies with his principled commitments to freedom and equality. In this engrossing work, Penny Weiss wrestles with issues of gender in the works of Rousseau. Weiss attempts to resolve apparent inconsistencies by placing them within the context of Rousseau's political philosophy, while avoiding the impulse to attribute his remarks on the sexes to the sexist times in which he wrote, or to his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002DZBMKC
• ISBN13: 9780814792889
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"