Jean-Jacques Rousseau on women and citizenship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11348297 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Larrère (a Université Paris 1-Sorbonne , France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 218-222 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2010.10.014 |
| OpenAlex | W2091092223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This paper aims at understanding why Rousseau excluded women from citizenship. Citizenship, for Rousseau, is not a matter of right, not even a matter of behaviour (of how to behave individually to be a good citizen). It is a matter of social condition. How should society be constituted so that there can be citizens? The answer to this question is that there must be women in the private sphere so that there can be citizen in the public sphere. The paper begins with Montesquieu's model of the republican condition of women, considers the way Rousseau updated this model, and concludes with the idea, that much more than the male figure of citizenship (which remains a stereotype), the woman, in Rousseau, is the true figure of modernity
Citizenship · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Social contract · Sociology · Stereotype (UML · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |