Only paradoxes to offer : French feminists and the rights of man / Joan Wallach Scott.

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Scott, Joan Wallach

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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780674043381
0674043383

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Only paradoxes to offer.DDC classification:

305.42/0944 22

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HQ1616 .S38 1996eb

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71.33

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Contents:

Rereading the history of feminism -- The uses of imagination: Olympe de Gouges in the French Revolution -- The duties of the citizen: Jeanne Deroin in the Revolution 1848 -- The rights of "the social": Hubertine Auclert and the politics of the Third Republic -- The radical individualism of Madeleine Pelletier -- Citizens but not individuals: the vote and after.

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Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-224) and index.

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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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