Parite! - Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism

Klappentext 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 "Parite!" 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 parite "successfully campaigned 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! "parite "was rigorously universalist--and for that reason was both misunderstood and a source of heated debate. Zusammenfassung France is in the throes of 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 this book! the author shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics.

Product details

• Authors: Joan W. Scott, Joan Wallach Scott, SCOTT JOAN W, Scott Joan Wallach
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2005
• EAN: 9780226741086
• ISBN: 978-0-226-74108-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning; Chicago Studies in Practices o; Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning; Chicago Studies in the Practices of Meaning (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; France, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Politics & government, Politics and government, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls