Through a series of close readings of most of Rousseau's major writings, this book provides a new interpretation of the eighteenth-century philosopher's sexual politics. The text argues that Rousseau's writings provide a critique of not only normative gender identity, but also normative familial and kinship relations.

ROSEANNE KENNEDY Adjunct Professor at New York University, USA.

Sexual/Political Inequality The Arts: From the Letter to d'Alembertt o the Reveries of a Solitary Walker Postoedipal Desire: Reading the Ménage à Trois Autobiography: Writing the Self, Writing Gender