Fantasy of Feminist History

Informationen zum Autor Joan Wallach Scott is the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her many books include The Politics of the Veil, Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man, and Gender and the Politics of History. Klappentext Joan Wallach Scott, a historian who helped to shape the fields of gender and womens history, argues for the usefulness of psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy, for feminist historical analysis. Zusammenfassung Joan Wallach Scott! a historian who helped to shape the fields of gender and womens history! argues for the usefulness of psychoanalytic concepts! particularly fantasy! for feminist historical analysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vi Introduction. "Flyers into the Unknown": Gender, History, Psychoanalysis 1 1. Feminism's History 23 2. Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity 45 3. Feminist Reverberations 68 4. Sexularism: On Secularism and Gender Equality 91 5. French Seduction Theory 117 Epilogue. A Feminist Theory Archive 141 Notes 149 Bibliography 169 Index 181

Product details

• Authors: Joan Scott, Joan Wallach Scott
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2011
• EAN: 9780822351139
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5113-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Next Wave Provocations; John Hope Franklin Center Book; Next Wave Provocations; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories