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"Uncovering sides of Rousseau previously hidden in plain sight, Kennedy's Rousseau in Drag is one of the most exciting books I have read in a very long time. It explodes reigning conceptions of Rousseau's views on women and gender and will generate healthy debate for years to come." - Helena Rosenblatt, professor of History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
"A bravura close-reading. In place of the blinkered proponent of patriarchy depicted in most of the literature on Rousseau, Kennedy brings to life a paragon of perverse desire a paradoxical and self-contradicting author whose texts belie a deep sexual ambivalence, in passages that are sometime wildly evocative of fluid identities and intimate relations outside of the traditional nuclear family." - James Miller, professor of Political Science and Liberal Studies, New School for Social Research
"Rousseau in Drag delivers an exciting new perspective on the gender dynamics across Rousseau's oeuvre. Probing the Confessions, Julie, Émile, and shorter essays, Kennedy's reading both complements and disrupts earlier feminist work on Rousseau by taking seriously his 'perverse' desires. Without reducing Rousseau's writings to his biography or psycho-biography, Kennedy interprets Rousseau's own sexual and performative proclivities as constituting a move beyond the gender binaries that he otherwise seems to reproduce at various points within his texts." - Lori Marso, author of (Un)Manly Citizens and Feminist Thinkersand the Demands of Femininity
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Book Title: Rousseau in Drag
Book Subtitle: Deconstructing Gender
Authors: Rosanne Terese Kennedy
Series Title: Breaking Feminist Waves
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010629
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Rosanne Terese Kennedy 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34008-4Published: 15 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34268-6Published: 15 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01062-9Published: 02 January 2012
Series ISSN: 2945-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 186
Topics: Modern Philosophy, Social History, Gender Studies, Literature, general, European Literature