Joan Wallach Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3599178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Wallach Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan Wallach |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 82 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 261 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 81 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sexularismo secularismo e igualdade de gênero
Este artigo apresenta a tradução do inglês ao português do capítulo “Sexularism: On Secularism and Gender Equality”, que compõe o livro “The Fantasy of Feminist History”, de Joan Wallach Scott, publicado em 2011 pela Duke University Press. O texto confronta a presunção colonialista de que o secularismo ocidental representaria a superação da desigualdade de gênero, operando com os pares binários do pensamento moderno para demonstrar que a desigual…
“L'ouvrière, mot impie, sordide.”…o discurso da economia política francesa sobre as operárias (1840-1960)
L'ouvrière, mot impie, sordide”... O discurso da economia política francesa sobre as operárias (1840-1960) é uma tradução inédita no Brasil, e publicada pela primeira vez em língua portuguesa, de um ensaio escrito pela historiadora Joan Scott, atualmente professora do Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (EUA). O texto foi originalmente publicado em inglês como sétimo capítulo do famoso livro Gender and the politics of history em 1988. Em 19…
Academic Freedom & the Politics of the University
In this essay, I explore the relationship between the politics of the production of knowledge and partisan attempts to interfere with it. I argue that, despite changing historical contexts, the line between this politics (understood as contests about meaning and power) and partisanship has never been secured. That is because there is a tension inherent in knowledge production that cannot be resolved by legislation, administrative fiat, or academi…
Laurie Laufer: Vers une psychanalyse émancipée : renouer avec la subversion
Gênero
Este artigo traça a história dos usos da palavra “gênero”. Isso sugere que, embora o conceito “gênero” tenha sido recuperado e se tornado comum, muitas questões persistem em torno da forma como “mulheres” e “homens”, e as relações de poder entre eles, são definidas e estão evoluindo. Desde que ainda nos permita questionar os significados atribuídos aos sexos, como eles se estabelecem e em que contextos gênero continua a ser uma categoria útil, cr…
Éliane Viennot, Maria Candea, Yannick Chevalier, Sylvia Duverger et Anne-Marie Houdebine: L’Académie contre la langue française
Archive Angst
“Archive Angst” is a meditation on one historian’s attempt to create her own archive and the questions and challenges it poses
Réponses
The Fantasy of Feminist History
In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy. Tracing the evolution of her thinking about gender over the course of her career, the pioneering historian explains how her search for ways to more forcefully insist on gender as mutable rather than fixed or stable led her to psychoanalytic theory, which posits sexual difference as an i…
Theses on Theory and History
Sing Clio, daughter of Zeus, Theory’s rage at the violations of your charge. You, who told Hesiod, “We know how to speak false things that seem true, but we know when we will, to utter true things.”Now is the time to utter true things, for Theory has been dishonored in your house, displaced by empires of empiricism, fetishism of archives, dictates of discipline, enforcement of orthodoxy, and impotent storytelling.Without Theory, History is naught…
History, language, time
The red heart of truth: On Denise Riley's critical feminism
Sex and Secularism
The author's acclaimed writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. In this book, the author challenges one of the central claims of the “clash of civilizations” polemic—that secularism guarantees gender equality. The book shows that the gender equality invoked today as an enduring principle was not originally associated with the term “secularism” when it first entered the nineteenth-century lexicon. In fact, the inequality of…
Conversations with Saba Mahmood
When Saba was writ ing Religious Difference in a Secular Age, she of en contacted me to talk about his to ry.She knew that to make the case she wanted to make about the im bri ca tion of sec u lar ism in the reg u la tion and prac tice of re li gion, she needed to put the eth no graphic ma te rial she had gath ered in a larger frame work.It was par tic u larly im por tant to be able to do this be cause Egypt-where she had done her field work-had …
Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom
Academic freedom rests on a shared belief that the production of knowledge advances the common good. In an era of education budget cuts, wealthy donors intervening in university decisions, and right-wing groups threatening dissenters, scholars cannot expect that those in power will value their work. Can academic freedom survive in this environment - and must we rearticulate what academic freedom is for in order to defend it? This book presents a …
Outras Reflexões sobre Gênero e Política
Este artigo revisita as complexas relações entre gênero e política, expandindo as reflexões da autora sobre como o gênero opera como uma categoria de análise histórica. Scott argumenta que o gênero é fundamental para entender as relações de poder, mas que sua aplicação requer uma análise cuidadosa de como ele interage com outras categorias sociais, como classe, raça e sexualidade. Ela critica abordagens simplistas que tratam o gênero como uma var…
Sex and Secularism
Gender and the Politics of History
This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. In this anniversary edition, Scott reflects on the book’s legacy and implications for contemporary politics as well as her engagement with psychoanalytic theory
Around Joan Wallach Scott's Sex and Secularism
Around Joan Wallach Scott's Sex and Secularism Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017, hardback, 240 pages
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Gender and the Vatican
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod
In 2002, when the invasion of Afghanistan was under way and the drums of war beat on insistently, Lila Abu-Lughod published an article that refused the argument that the United States was engaged in a mission to save women from the Taliban. Laura Bush had famously justified the war on terror as "a fight for the rights and dignity of women" in Afghanistan. "Because of our recent military gains," she said in a November 2001 radio broadcast to the n…
The fantasy of feminist history
The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation and Equality
Research Article| October 01 2012 The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation and Equality Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her most recent book is The Fantasy of Feminist History (Duke University Press, 2011). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168. https://doi.org/10.5406/histor…
Only Paradoxes to Offer
When feminists argued for political rights in the context of liberal democracy, they insisted that the differences between men and women were irrelevant for citizenship. Yet by acting on behalf of women, they introduced the very idea of difference they sought to eliminate. Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox.
Gender: Still a Useful Category of Analysis
This paper traces the history of uses of the word "gender". It suggests that though "gender" has been recuperated and become commonplace, many issues persist around the way "women" and "men", and the power relations between them, are defined and are evolving. Provided it still allows us to question the meanings attached to the sexes, how they are established and in what contexts, gender remains a useful, because critical, analytical category
Feminist Reverberations
joan wallach scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her most recent book is Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (Harvard University Press, 1996). She is writing a book about the French mouvement pour la parité, the successful campaign during the 1990s to pass a law requiring equal numbers of men and women as candidates for elected office
Le genre: Une Catégorie d'Analyse Toujours Utile
Cet article retrace l’histoire des emplois du terme « genre ». Il avance que, bien que « genre » ait été récupéré et banalisé, de nombreuses questions perdurent quant à la façon dont les « femmes » et les « hommes » et les relations de pouvoir existant entre eux sont définis et évoluent. Pourvu qu’il permette encore d’interroger les significations attachées aux sexes, la manière dont elles sont établies et dans quels contextes, le genre demeure u…
Poststructuralist Gender Historians: Are We Those Names
WHAT MANY SOCIAL HISTORIANS are dubbing 'the controversy about discourse theory' is often posed as a single yes-or-no question. It may be more useful, however, to use a review of two key works in this controversy to clarify several related but distinct debates regarding theory, method, and politics which often are lumped together in an indigestible polemical mass. These two books are generally 'on the same side,' politically and theoretically, bu…
Political Shoemakers
POLITICAL SHOEMAKERS Get access E. J. Hobsbawm, E. J. Hobsbawm Birkbeck CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 89, Issue 1, November 1980, Pages 86–114, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/89.1.86 Published: 01 November 1980
"La Querelle des Femmes" in the Late Twentieth Century
This article examines the feminist debates on the parity movement in France in the 1990s. It shows how French and North-American feminists deploy stereotypes in articulating theoretical and political arguments for and against parity. Drawing comparisons between historical debates women’s political representation in France during the foundation of republicanism with more contemporary discussions, the author focuses on the arguments offered by cont…
The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation and Equality
Research Article| October 01 2012 The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation and Equality Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her most recent book is The Fantasy of Feminist History (Duke University Press, 2011). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168. https://doi.org/10.5406/histor…
Against Eclecticism
joan wallach scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her most recent book isParité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism(University of Chicago Press, 2005
Survey Articles Women in History: The Modern Period
SURVEY ARTICLES WOMEN IN HISTORY: THE MODERN PERIOD Get access Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 101, Issue 1, November 1983, Pages 141–157, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/101.1.141 Published: 01 November 1983
French Feminists and the Rights of 'Man: Olympe de Gouges's Declarations
French Feminists and the Rights of ‘Man’: Olympe de Gouges's Declarations Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 28, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1989, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/28.1.1 Published: 01 October 1989
Social History and the History of Socialism: French Socialist Municipalities in the 1890's
One of social history's contributions has been to examine in context, closely and concretely, events which ha+7e largely been analyzed from the perspective of national history or in terms of long-term evolutionary theories. The result has been a clearer picture of historical experience, the provision of greater detail about the lives of people irl the past, and a modification or revisiorl of previous generalizations. This paper is meant to exempl…
Fantasmes du millénaire: Le futur du « genre » au XXIe siècle
Is gender still “a useful category” of analysis? The article suggests it may have lost its critical edge. Not only has gender become a banal way of characterizing the difference between the sexes, it has also sometimes prevented feminists from attending to the serious questions posed by new biological and psychological research. The author does not suggest that we erase gender and the useful notions associated with it from our vocabulary, which c…
L'énigme de l'égalité
Il arrive fréquemment que les débats sur l’action positive aux États-Unis traitent séparément les questions relatives à l’égalité et à la différence, aux droits individuels et aux identités de groupe. Pourtant, ce sont là des couples de concepts interdépendants, chacun étant lié à l’autre dans une tension nécessaire. Les tensions se manifestent de façon spécifique selon la période historique et doivent être analysées en fonction du contexte polit…
Gender and the Politics of History
Theses on Theory and History
Sing Clio, daughter of Zeus, Theory’s rage at the violations of your charge. You, who told Hesiod, “We know how to speak false things that seem true, but we know when we will, to utter true things.”Now is the time to utter true things, for Theory has been dishonored in your house, displaced by empires of empiricism, fetishism of archives, dictates of discipline, enforcement of orthodoxy, and impotent storytelling.Without Theory, History is naught…
Around Joan Wallach Scott's Sex and Secularism
Around Joan Wallach Scott's Sex and Secularism Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017, hardback, 240 pages
Gender and the Vatican
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod
In 2002, when the invasion of Afghanistan was under way and the drums of war beat on insistently, Lila Abu-Lughod published an article that refused the argument that the United States was engaged in a mission to save women from the Taliban. Laura Bush had famously justified the war on terror as "a fight for the rights and dignity of women" in Afghanistan. "Because of our recent military gains," she said in a November 2001 radio broadcast to the n…
Reverberaciones feministas
In the keynote address delivered at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, held at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, in June 2002, Joan Wallach Scott deliberates about the feminist analytical power. Utilizing a critical interpretation the author applies these logical analyses to the crisis activated by war against terrorism, the history of women and gender, and to global and local knowledge; being this last one the subject of the …
Preguntas no respondidas
Preguntas no respondidas
The Edge. Interview
Research Article| November 01 1997 The Edge. Interview Kathryn Cook; Kathryn Cook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Renea Henry; Renea Henry Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1997) 9 (3): 132–155. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-9-3-132 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions …
Women's Studies on the Edge. Introduction
Vive la différence
Love and Politics in Wartime: Letters to My Wife, 1943-45
Journal Article Love and Politics in Wartime: Letters to My Wife, 1943–45. By Benedict S. Alper. Ed. by Joan Wallach Scott. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xxvi + 220 pp. $26.50, ISBN 0-252-01877-X.) Get access Martha H. Swain Martha H. Swain Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 743–744, h…
The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City
Introduction 1. Carmaux, 1850-1890 2. The Craft of the Glassworker 3. Glassworkers and Miners: A Contrast 4. Mechanization 5. Socialism 6. The Strike of 1895 7. New Glassworkers and Old, 1896-1914 Epilogue: Three Portraits Appendix Bibliography Notes Index
The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City
The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City
The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City
Urban and Rural Artisans in Nineteenth-Century France
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Reply to the Hilden Critique
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Political Shoemakers
POLITICAL SHOEMAKERS Get access E. J. Hobsbawm, E. J. Hobsbawm Birkbeck CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 89, Issue 1, November 1980, Pages 86–114, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/89.1.86 Published: 01 November 1980
Social History and the History of Socialism: French Socialist Municipalities in the 1890's
One of social history's contributions has been to examine in context, closely and concretely, events which ha+7e largely been analyzed from the perspective of national history or in terms of long-term evolutionary theories. The result has been a clearer picture of historical experience, the provision of greater detail about the lives of people irl the past, and a modification or revisiorl of previous generalizations. This paper is meant to exempl…
Dix ans d'histoire des femmes aux États-Unis
Professional Work and Marriage: An East-West Comparison. Marilyn Rueschemeyer
Survey Articles Women in History: The Modern Period
SURVEY ARTICLES WOMEN IN HISTORY: THE MODERN PERIOD Get access Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 101, Issue 1, November 1983, Pages 141–157, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/101.1.141 Published: 01 November 1983
Les Verriers de Carmaux. Histoire de la naissance d'un syndicalisme
Feminism and the humanities year at the humanities research centre, ANU: HRC conference two, Canberra, July 1986: A conference report
New Documents on the Lives of French Women: The Journal of Caroline B., 1864-1868
Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
Those who would codify the meanings of words fight a losing battle, for words, like the ideas and things they are meant to signify, have a history. Neither Oxford dons nor the Academie Francaise has been entirely able to stem the tide, to capture and fix meanings free of the play of human invention and imagination. Mary Wortley Montagu added bite to her witty denunciation ‘of the fair sex’ (‘my only consolation for being of that gender has been t…
Genre: Une catégorie utile d'analyse historique
Scott Joan, Varikas Eleni. Genre : Une categorie utile d'analyse historique. In: Les Cahiers du GRIF, n°37-38, 1988. Le genre de l'histoire. pp. 125-153.
Gender and the Politics of History
Women's History 2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis Part II: Gender and Class 3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History 4. Women in The Making of the English Working Class Part III: Gender in History 5. Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 1848 6. A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l'industrie a Paris, 1847-1848 7. L'ouvriere! Mot impie, s…
History in Crisis? The Others' Side of the Story
History in Crisis? The Others' Side of the Story Get access Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 94, Issue 3, June 1989, Pages 680–692, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/94.3.680 Published: 01 June 1989
French Feminists and the Rights of 'Man: Olympe de Gouges's Declarations
French Feminists and the Rights of ‘Man’: Olympe de Gouges's Declarations Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 28, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1989, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/28.1.1 Published: 01 October 1989
Gender and the Politics of History
Poststructuralist Gender Historians: Are We Those Names
WHAT MANY SOCIAL HISTORIANS are dubbing 'the controversy about discourse theory' is often posed as a single yes-or-no question. It may be more useful, however, to use a review of two key works in this controversy to clarify several related but distinct debates regarding theory, method, and politics which often are lumped together in an indigestible polemical mass. These two books are generally 'on the same side,' politically and theoretically, bu…
Women, Work and the French State: Labour Protection and Social Patriarchy, 1879-1919
The Campaign against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake?
The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake
Research Article| October 01 1992 The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (54): 59–79. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1992-54-59 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Joan Wallach Scott; The Campaign Against Political Correctness…
Love and Politics in Wartime: Letters to My Wife, 1943-45
Journal Article Love and Politics in Wartime: Letters to My Wife, 1943–45. By Benedict S. Alper. Ed. by Joan Wallach Scott. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xxvi + 220 pp. $26.50, ISBN 0-252-01877-X.) Get access Martha H. Swain Martha H. Swain Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 743–744, h…
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