Domesticating Passions (Signed) (First Printing) Rousseau, Woman, and the Nation

Fermon, Nicole

ISBN 10: 0819563056 / ISBN 13: 9780819563057

Published by Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, MA, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Domesticating Passions (Signed) (First Printing) Rousseau, Woman, and the Nation
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, MA
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819563056
• ISBN 13: 9780819563057
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The role of women and family as central to Rousseau's concept of the modern, enlightened state.

"Woman, both real and metaphorical, is at the center of the project to reform politics, which for Rousseau means all human relations," Nicole Fermon asserts in this finely wrought study of how Jean-Jacques Rousseau places the family, women, and love within his political philosophy. Rather than accept conventional conceptual dichotomies of "public" and "private" or "man" and "citizen," Fermon suggests that Rousseau's teachings on the family represent a connecting strand in an overarching philosophy: man not only creates institutions to satisfy his own needs, she writes, "but the needs themselves are crucially formed and transformed by the social setting and the educational experience." Thus the family in general and women in particular play a key role in the Rousseaurean project, as the household becomes "entrusted not only with the reproduction of life and daily necessities, but with the reproduction of sociality itself."

About the Author

Nicole Ferman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University and coeditor of Princeton Readings on Political Thought (1996). Nicole Ferman is editor, with M. Cohen, of Princeton Readings in Political Thought (Princeton, 1996).