View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Scholar Commons - Santa Clara University Santa Clara University Scholar Commons History College of Arts & Sciences 2003 Utopian Androgyny: Romantic Socialists Confront Individualism in July Monarchy France Naomi J. Andrews Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.scu.edu/history Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Andrews, Naomi J. (2003). Utopian Androgyny: Romantic Socialists Confront Individualism in July Monarchy France. French Historical Studies 26.3 (2003) 437-457. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Arts & Sciences at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in History by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Naomi J. Andrews - Utopian Androgyny: Romantic Socialists Confront Individualism in July Monarchy France - French Historical Studies ... Copyright © 2003 by The Society for French Historical Studies. All rights reserved. French Historical Studies 26.3 (2003) 437-457 Utopian Androgyny: Romantic Socialists Confront Individualism in July Monarchy France Naomi J. Andrews The two sexes will be but one, according to the word of Christ; the great androgyne will be created; humanity will be woman and man, love and thought, tenderness and force, grace and energy. Abbé Constant In a certain respect, nineteenth-century intellectual and political history is the story of the liberal individual and his foes. From conservative Christian thinkers to Socialists to Communists, French intellectuals of the first part of the century were engaged in one long conversation about the individual and his (and later, her) rights, responsibilities, and relationship to society.