1st Edition

From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects

By Claudia Moscovici Copyright 1997
108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects traces some of the ruptures and continuities between the eighteenth-century masculinist formulations of subjectivity elaborated by Rousseau, Diderot and Kant and the contemporary postmodern and feminist critiques of the universal subject--meaning the self viewed as an abstract individual who exercises an impartial and rational (political) judgment that is... Read more
Introduction 2 The Trope of Dissimulation 3 Sexual Subjects 3 Turning Toward the Universal 4 The Field of Cultural production 5 Justice, Equality and Proportional Group Representation.

Biography

Claudia Moscovici is in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University.