Parite!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)
by Joan Wallach Scott
Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
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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 1990's, le mouvement pour la parité successfully campaigned show more 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 universalist-and for that reason was both misunderstood and a source of heated debate. show lessTags
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Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Her books include Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996), The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011), and Sex and Secularism (2017).
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, History, Sociology, General Nonfiction
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- 320.082 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political Science Culture Studies
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- HQ1236.5 .F8 .S36 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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