Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man - Hardcover

Scott, Joan W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674639308 ISBN 13: 9780674639300

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1996

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Book by Scott Joan W

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In her subtle and provocative new book, Joan Scott convincingly argues that the exclusion of women was central to the logic of French republicanism in the 19th century, and she traces the workings of this logic through the eyes of its most persistent feminist critics. -- Joshua Cole "Village Voice Literary Supplement" "Only Paradoxes to Offer" is a valuable and stimulating book which synthesises a number of theoretical issues and applies them in original ways to specific historical contexts. It will be of great value to scholars engaged in feminist critical theory, women's studies and French history. -- Felicia Gordon "Women's Philosophy Review UK " Those interested in feminism, postmodernism, historiography, and/or the fundamental assumptions that sustain contemporary political debates will find this book richly rewarding. Philosophers of science concerned with the methodological production of facticity will find this work exemplary of the contributions of postmodernism to the construction of the past. -- Mary Hawkesworth "Canadian Philosophical Reviews" The four feminists examined in this book all had differing ideas about the problem of women's 'equality' or 'difference', ideas that Scott clearly shows to be a product of the dominant political discourses of their time... "Only Paradoxes to Offer" is successful and important in its exposure of the internal contradictions, dilemmas and 'obsessive repetitions' of the feminist experience. -- Jane Freedman "Modern and Contemporary France UK " Readers of this book will enjoy discovering (or rediscovering) four compelling women, while marveling at how the terms of earlier feminism are at once familiar and strange. Rather than taking the category of women for granted as the subject of feminist discourse and politics, Scott argues that feminist agency is itself profoundly paradoxical... T his book contributes a probing intellectual history of the central questions in modern feminist thought which will also add much to contemporary feminist inquiry. -- Joan B. Landes "American Political Science Review" through the eyes of its most persistent feminist critics. thought which will also add much to contemporary feminist inquiry. will be of great value to scholars engaged in feminist critical theory, women's studies and French history. with the methodological production of facticity will find this work exemplary of the contributions of postmodernism to the construction of the past. their time...["Only Paradoxes to Offer"] is successful and important in its exposure of the internal contradictions, dilemmas and 'obsessive repetitions' of the feminist experience.

Reseña del editor:

When feminists argued for political rights in the context of liberal democracy they faced an impossible choice. On the one hand, they insisted that the differences between men and women were irrelevant for citizenship. On the other hand, by the fact that they acted on behalf of women, they introduced the very idea of difference they sought to eliminate. This paradox - the need both to accept and to refuse sexual difference in politics - was the constitutive condition of the long struggle by women to gain the right of citizenship. In this book, historian Joan Wallach Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox of sexual difference. Focusing on four feminist activists - Olympe de Gourges, who wrote the "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen" during the French Revolution; Jeanne Deroin, a utopian socialist and candidate for legislative office in 1848; Hubertine Auclert, "the" suffragist of the Third Republic; and Madeleine Pelletier, a psychiatrist in the early 20th century who argued that women must "virilize" themselves in order to gain equality - Scott charts the repetitions and variations in feminist history. When sexual difference was taken to be a fundamental difference, when only men were regarded as individuals and thus as citizens, how could women also be citizens? The answers feminists offered to such questions are the subject of this book.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0674639308
• ISBN 13: 9780674639300
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246