Only paradoxes to offer
French feminists and the rights of man
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Author
Publication
1996 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
57,250 words, Guess
Page Count
229 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL796073M
- ISBN-100674639308
- OCLC Control Number32924140
- OCLC Control Numberonlyparadoxestoo00scot
- Library of Congress Control Number95031953
and 2 more
- LibraryThing531092
- Goodreads2168777
Classifications
- DDC305.42/0944
- LCCHQ1616 .S38 1996
Description
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 new book, remarkable in both its findings and its methodology, award-winning historian Joan Wallach Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox of sexual difference.
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