Parité! : sexual equality and the crisis of French universalism / Joan Wallach Scott.

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Scott, Joan Wallach

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Chicago studies in practices of meaningPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 191 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226741093
0226741095
9780226741079
0226741079
9780226741086
0226741087

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Parité!DDC classification:

320/.082/0944 22

LOC classification:

HQ1236.5.F8 S36 2005eb

Other classification:

320.0820944
89.57
MG 34285
8,2

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Contents:

The crisis of representation -- The rejection of quotas -- The dilemma of difference -- The campaign for parité -- The discourse of the couple -- The power of the law.

Summary: 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 the 1990s, 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-182) and index.

The crisis of representation -- The rejection of quotas -- The dilemma of difference -- The campaign for parité -- The discourse of the couple -- The power of the law.

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 the 1990s, 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.

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