| Autor: |
Mann, Emily, Kestnbaum, Meyer |
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Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2007 Annual Meeting, p1, 22p, 1 Chart |
| Abstrakt: |
Scholars of citizenship, states and politics have long recognized the key role the French Revolution played in the invention of both the modern nation-state and the modern institution and ideology of national citizenship. This republican ideal of citizenship posited civil equality, political rights and popular sovereignty as the basis for universal membership in the nation. As feminist and postcolonial scholars have demonstrated, however, in the case of French women and colonial subjects, the civic republican tradition was rooted in systematic exclusion. Less well understood is how the interaction of historically specific processes of gender and race informed French national citizenship at the moment of its invention. This essay demonstrates that the intersections of racialization and gender differentiation in the age of democratic revolutions and colonial conquest at the turn of the eighteenth century were central to the formation of the modern French citizen. We explore how principles of universal inclusion produced a homogenized ideal citizen who was rendered normal, with respect to whom differences of race and gender were then reintroduced in particularistic terms as subordinate. In this process, homogenizing universalism was paradoxically bolstered by practices of racial and gendered marginalization. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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