Gender and Citizenship: The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Culture

By Claudia Moscovici

Claudia Moscovici proposes a new understanding of how gender relations were reformulated by both male and female writers in nineteenth-century France. She analyzes the different versions of gendered citizenship elaborated by Friedrich Hegel, George Sand, Honore de Balzac, Auguste Comte, and Herculine Barbin revealing a shift from a single dialectical (or male-centered) definition of citizenship to a double dialectical (or bi-gendered) one in which each sex plays an important role in suject-citizenship and is defined as the negation of the other sex.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847696952
• ISBN13: 9780847696956
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"