Unmanly Citizens: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Stael's Subversive Women

by Lori Jo Marso and Professor Lori Jo Marso

Book Overview

In (Un)Manly Citizens, political theorist Lori Jo Marso explores an alternative vision of citizenship in the writings of French Enlightenment figures Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Germaine de Sta l. This critique transgresses the boundary between political philosophy and literature in turning explicitly to fictional texts as the site of an alternative conception of the self, citizenship, and democratic politics.

Marso departs from previous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801869226
• ISBN13: 9780801869228
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"