Rousseau in Drag: Deconstructing Gender

by Rosanne Terese Kennedy

Book Overview

Through a series of close readings of most of Rousseau's major writings, this book provides a new interpretation of the eighteenth-century philosopher's sexual politics. The text argues that Rousseau's writings provide a critique of not only normative gender identity, but also normative familial and kinship relations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230340083
• ISBN13: 9780230340084
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"