The good prince or the good mother: Reassessing the question of gender in Rousseau’s political theory

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Rustighi, Lorenzo
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2018
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The article argues that Rousseau´s fairy tale "La Reine Fantasque" (1754-1756) must be read in direct connection with his theory of government, thus clarifying the actual meaning of the gender metamorphoses he displays in this text. By engaging with scholarship dedicated both to Rousseau´s work and to gender, economy, and family transformations between the 17th and the 18th century, the essay argues that this tale should be understood as a fictional laboratory for the construction of a new kind of governmental agent: a feminised and maternalised subject whose power is passive and merely administrative, thus allowing a peculiar coalition between the economico-political archives of the Reason of State, the theory of sovereign power, and a new paradigm of economic governmentality. The author tries therefore to gain new insights into the construction of motherhood in 18th century culture.
Fil: Rustighi, Lorenzo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Filosofía "Dr. Alejandro Korn"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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title The good prince or the good mother: Reassessing the question of gender in Rousseau’s political theory
spellingShingle The good prince or the good mother: Reassessing the question of gender in Rousseau’s political theory
Rustighi, Lorenzo
Rousseau
Patriarchy
Gender
Family
title_short The good prince or the good mother: Reassessing the question of gender in Rousseau’s political theory
title_full The good prince or the good mother: Reassessing the question of gender in Rousseau’s political theory
title_fullStr The good prince or the good mother: Reassessing the question of gender in Rousseau’s political theory
title_full_unstemmed The good prince or the good mother: Reassessing the question of gender in Rousseau’s political theory
title_sort The good prince or the good mother: Reassessing the question of gender in Rousseau’s political theory
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rustighi, Lorenzo
author Rustighi, Lorenzo
author_facet Rustighi, Lorenzo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Rousseau
Patriarchy
Gender
Family
topic Rousseau
Patriarchy
Gender
Family
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https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The article argues that Rousseau´s fairy tale "La Reine Fantasque" (1754-1756) must be read in direct connection with his theory of government, thus clarifying the actual meaning of the gender metamorphoses he displays in this text. By engaging with scholarship dedicated both to Rousseau´s work and to gender, economy, and family transformations between the 17th and the 18th century, the essay argues that this tale should be understood as a fictional laboratory for the construction of a new kind of governmental agent: a feminised and maternalised subject whose power is passive and merely administrative, thus allowing a peculiar coalition between the economico-political archives of the Reason of State, the theory of sovereign power, and a new paradigm of economic governmentality. The author tries therefore to gain new insights into the construction of motherhood in 18th century culture.
Fil: Rustighi, Lorenzo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Filosofía "Dr. Alejandro Korn"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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