%0 Journal Article
%T Masculinit¨¦ et libertinage dans la figure et les ¨¦crits de Christine de Su¨¨de
%A Jean-Pierre Cavaill¨¦
%J Les Dossiers du Grihl
%D 2012
%I Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Histoire du Litt¨¦raire - CRH
%R 10.4000/dossiersgrihl.3965
%X Christine de Su¨¨de repr¨¦sente un case study exceptionnel pour aborder la question de la repr¨¦sentation de la masculinit¨¦ associ¨¦e ¨¤ l¡¯id¨¦e de force d¡¯esprit en mati¨¨re de religion. En effet la reine est invariablement pr¨¦sent¨¦e par les contemporains comme arborant de multiples signes de virilit¨¦, dans le port, le maintien, le v¨ºtement, les occupations et le discours, jetant ainsi le plus grand trouble sur son identit¨¦ de genre, plus encore que de sexe (m¨ºme si la question de ses pr¨¦f¨¦rences sexuelles ne cesse elle-m¨ºme d¡¯¨ºtre agit¨¦e). Or ce trouble ou cette ind¨¦termination du genre, d  ¨¤ sa masculinit¨¦ outr¨¦e, est mise en rapport, surtout dans les ann¨¦es de l¡¯abdication, ¨¤ son   libertinage   d¡¯esprit, voire ¨¤ son incr¨¦dulit¨¦ pure et simple, nourrie de tous les motifs irr¨¦ligieux circulant dans l¡¯Europe du xviie si¨¨cle. Face ¨¤ cette double image, colport¨¦e par les libelles, les m¨¦moires, les correspondances, Christine n¡¯est pas rest¨¦e passive : elle s¡¯est elle-m¨ºme prononc¨¦e sur sa f¨¦minit¨¦ et sa masculinit¨¦, en relation avec son statut de reine et sa d¨¦cision d¡¯abdication, de m¨ºme que, alors qu¡¯elle se trouvait engag¨¦e ¨¤ Rome dans une nouvelle forme d¡¯h¨¦t¨¦rodoxie ¨C le qui¨¦tisme ¨C, elle revint sans remord sur ses longues ann¨¦es d¡¯incr¨¦dulit¨¦. Christina of Sweden is an exceptional case to study the topic of the representation of masculinity associated with the idea of strength of mind in religious matters. In fact, the queen is invariably showed by contemporaries as displaying multiple signs of masculinity in attitudes, clothing, activities and speech, thereby generating the greatest confusion about gender identity, even more than sexual identity (even if the question of her sexual inclinations has continually been raised). But this trouble or uncertainty about gender, due to her exaggerated masculinity, is related, especially in the years of her abdication, to her ¡°libertinage¡± of mind, or even pure and simple her unbelief, fed by all the irreligious topics circulating in Europe in the seventeenth century. Faced with this double representation, carried by contemporary pamphlets, memoirs and correspondence, Christine did not remain passive: she wrote a lot on her femininity and her masculinity, in relation to her queen¡¯s status and her decision to abdicate, when she was in Rome engaged in a new form of heterodoxy ¨C quietism ¨C, she came back without remorse on his long years of unbelief.
%K libertinism
%K libertine
%K freethinker
%K philosophy
%K gender
%K masculinity
%K femininity
%K Christina of Sweden
%K sex
%K identity
%K Amazon
%K hermaphrodite
%K virago
%K conversion abdication
%K sovereignty
%K quietism
%K libertinage
%K philosophie
%K genre
%K esprit fort
%K masculinit¨¦
%K f¨¦minit¨¦
%K ENBaCH
%K Christine de Su¨¨de
%K sexe
%K identit¨¦
%K amazone
%K hermaphrodite
%K virilit¨¦
%K virago
%K libertine
%K conversion
%K abdication
%K souverainet¨¦
%K qui¨¦tisme
%U http://dossiersgrihl.revues.org/3965