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Informationen zum Autor By Claudia Moscovici Klappentext 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 subject-citizenship and is defined as the negation of the other sex. Moscovici further argues that a double dialectical pattern of androgyny endows women with a (relational) cultural identity that secures their paradoxical roles as both representatives and outsiders to subject-citizenship in nineteenth-century French society and culture. Zusammenfassung This text proposes a different understanding of how gender relations were reformulated by both male and female writers in 19th-century France. It analyzes the different versions of gendered citizenship revealing a shift from single definition of citizenship to a double dialectical one. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction: The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship Chapter 3 Theoretical Foundations: Doubling the Foundations Chapter 4 The Social Model of Citizenship: Comte'sA General View of Positivism Chapter 5 Gendered Spheres in Balzac'sLa Cousine Bette Chapter 6 Exemplary Androgyny in Sand'sIndiana Chapter 7 Gender Trouble in the Diary of Herculine Barbin: Unreading Foucault Chapter 8 Conclusion: Androgyny and the Chiasmic Economy of Sexual Difference Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 About the Author
