Domesticating Passions

by Fermon, Nicole

• ISBN13: 9780819552990
• ISBN10: 0819552992
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(11)
1 The Politics of Interpretation	12	(37)
The Illumination	15	(1)
Interpretive Positions	16	(2)
Feminocentric Fables for Androcentrist Reform	18	(2)
Confronting Familial Reform: Critics and Other Readers	20	(4)
Misogyny and Female Impersonation	24	(3)
The Homeopathic Dose	27	(6)
Accommodating Necessity and Circumstances	33	(2)
Revolutionary Readers/Subjects	35	(2)
Sentiment Counts	37	(1)
La Nouvelle Heloise	38	(4)
Love and/or Marriage	42	(1)
Modern Babyphilia	43	(6)
2 Familial Attachments	49	(48)
Building Character	50	(2)
Readers into Citizens	52	(2)
Cultural Transmission of Mores	54	(4)
The Modern Couple: Seducer and Virgin	58	(1)
Territorial Claims: The Imperatives of Sex and Death	59	(2)
Criminal Passion and Social Harmony	61	(6)
Discipline and Familial Reform in Geneva	67	(2)
The Western Church: Fathers and Brothers	69	(3)
Christian Sexual Love	72	(4)
Patria Potestas: Facts and Fictions	76	(6)
Why Marry?	82	(5)
Reforming the Ancien Regime	87	(1)
Woman--Power Broker and Idol	88	(4)
Sex and Death: Keeping Faith with Conventions	92	(5)
3 Education and Freedom	97	(25)
Educating the Natural Man	99	(7)
Teacher and Legislator	106	(1)
Political Institutions and Moral Development	107	(1)
Passions of the Patriarchal Household	108	(3)
Education and Freedom in La Nouvelle Heloise	111	(3)
Emile: Pedagogy for a Random World	114	(3)
Free Will and Conscience: The Legislative Task	117	(5)
4 Community and Economic Development	122	(38)
Economy and Society	122	(4)
The Classical Topos--Wisdom versus Civic Virtue	126	(5)
Proto-Industrialization and Development	131	(1)
French Agrarian Development in the Eighteenth Century	132	(4)
The Physiocratic Solution	136	(3)
Interest and the Human Heart	139	(2)
Destitution	141	(4)
Private Property: Origins and Justifications	145	(2)
Patriarchy and Despotism	147	(6)
The Intervention of Women	153	(2)
Moral Ordering of Brute Functions	155	(5)
5 The Feminine Body and the Nation-State	160	(19)
Worse than Dead	161	(6)
Citizenship in the Modern State	167	(3)
The Sovereign Body	170	(3)
The "Phantasmatic" Mother	173	(6)
Conclusion	179	(4)
Notes	183	(34)
Bibliography	217