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Rousseau's writings reflect paradoxes and apparent inconsistencies with his principled commitments to freedom and equality. This title addresses the debates concerning Rousseau's understandings of gender, justice, freedom, community, and equality.

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Clear, rich, and coherent, the book succeeds splendidly. * Choice *
In a thoughtful, lucid and graceful book, Penny Weiss shows how Rousseau's attempt to combine a sexual division of labor with a communitarian politicsas good a try as there ever wascannot succeed. Weiss offers a convincing feminist reading of Rousseau, one that genuinely gives the other side of the gender equality argument, Rousseau's side, its due. -- Jane Bennett,Goucher College

GENDERED COMMUNITY Rousseau Sex and Politics

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      Publisher: New York University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/1995
      ISBN13: 9780814792889, 978-0814792889
      ISBN10: 081479288X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Rousseau's writings reflect paradoxes and apparent inconsistencies with his principled commitments to freedom and equality. This title addresses the debates concerning Rousseau's understandings of gender, justice, freedom, community, and equality.

      Trade Review
      Clear, rich, and coherent, the book succeeds splendidly. * Choice *
      In a thoughtful, lucid and graceful book, Penny Weiss shows how Rousseau's attempt to combine a sexual division of labor with a communitarian politicsas good a try as there ever wascannot succeed. Weiss offers a convincing feminist reading of Rousseau, one that genuinely gives the other side of the gender equality argument, Rousseau's side, its due. -- Jane Bennett,Goucher College

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