A progenitor of modern egalitarianism, communitarianism, and
participatory democracy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a philosopher
whose deep concern with the relationship between the domains of
private domestic and public political life has made him especially
interesting to feminist theorists, but also has made him very
controversial. The essays in this volume, representing a wide range
of feminist interpretations of Rousseau, explore the many tensions
in his thought that arise from his unique combination of radical
and traditional perspectives on gender relations and the state.
Among the topics addressed by the contributors are: the
connections between Rousseau's political vision of the egalitarian
state and his view of the "natural" role of women in the family;
Rousseau's apparent fear of the actual danger and power of women;
important questions Rousseau raised about child care and gender
relations in individualist societies that feminists should address;
the founding of republics; the nature of consent; the meaning of
citizenship; and the conflation of modern universal ideals of
democratic citizenship with modern masculinity, leading to the
suggestion that the latter is as fragile a construction as the
former.
Overall this volume makes an important contribution to a core
question at the hinge of modernism and postmodernism: how modern,
egalitarian notions of social contract, premised on universality
and objective reason, can yet result in systematic exclusion of
social groups, including women. Contributors are Leah Bradshaw,
Melissa A. Butler, Anne Harper, Sarah Kofman, Rebecca Kukla, Lynda
Lange, Ingrid Makus, Lori J. Marso, Mira Morgenstern, Susan Moller
Okin, Alice Ormiston, Penny Weiss, Elie Wiestad, Elizabeth
Wingrove, Monique Wittig, and Linda Zerilli.
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