Secure Your Copy Parité!: Sexual Equality And The Crisis Of French Universalism Developed By Joan Wallach Scott Available Through Volume

my dream world, Joan Scott would write a book explaining, well, everything, Ive never read

an author who can take such abstract, potentially confusing concepts and strip them down to their essentials without losing their aura of mystery.
Scotts intelligence coats every word in this intellectual history of the political equality movement in France, and for that reason alone it was a pleasure to read.


On the other hand, it was disturbing, although I suppose it shouldnt have been surprising, to see the extent to which even the most idealistic philosophers and progressives throughout French history have done everything possible to keep women from obtaining any modicum of political power.
If, as Rousseau complained, women make men lose their rational faculties “, . . women make us into women” it seems to me that the oh so vaunted male rationality isnt worth much, Maybe thats why they feel so threatened A remarkably interesting look at the Parite movement in the France in thes, Underlines how weird their concept of Universalism is, how a seemingly progressive move can be appropriated by conservatives/gaybashers, Quick read. France today is in the throes of a crisis about whether to represent social differences within its political system and, if so, how.
It is a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation.
In Parité! Joan Wallach Scott shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics.
 

During thes, le mouvement pour la parité successfully campaigned for women's inclusion in elective office with an argument that is unprecedented in the annals of feminism.
The paritaristes insisted that if the abstract individual were thought of as sexed, then sexual difference would no longer be a relevant consideration in politics.
Scott insists that this argument was neither essentialist nor separatist it was not about women's special qualities or interests, Instead, parité was rigorously universalistand for that reason was both misunderstood and a source of heated debate, Joan Scott is known internationally for writings that theorize gender as an analytic category, She is a leading figure in the emerging field of critical history, Her ground breaking work has challenged the foundations of conventional historical practice, including the nature of historical evidence and historical experience and the role of narrative in the writing of history, and has contributed to a transformation of the field of intellectual history.
Scotts recent books focus on gender and democratic politics, Her works include The Politics of the Veil, Gender and the Politics of History, Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man, and Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism Joan Scott is known internationally for writings that theorize gender as an analytic category.
She is a leading figure in the emerging field of critical history, Her ground breaking work has challenged the foundations of conventional historical practice, including the nature of historical evidence and historical experience and the role of narrative in the writing of history, and has contributed to a transformation of the field of intellectual history.
Scott's recent books focus on gender and democratic politics, Her works include The Politics of the Veil, Gender and the Politics of History, Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man, and Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism.
Scott graduated from Brandeis University inand received her PhD from the University of WisconsinMadison in, Before joining the Institute for Advanced Study, Scott taught in the history departments of Brown University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Rutgers University.
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