Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. 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).
17 Ebooks by Joan Wallach Scott
Joan Wallach Scott: 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. Joan Wallach Scott offers a tren …
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Joan Wallach Scott: 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- …
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€27.99
Joan Wallach Scott: The Politics of the Veil
In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of ‘conspicuous signs’ of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls weari …
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A Community of Scholars
The Institute for Advanced Study in essays and photos This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of th …
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€34.99
Joan Wallach Scott: Sex and Secularism
How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secul …
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€23.99
Joan Wallach Scott: Der neue und der alte französische Säkularismus
Was hat der Kampf für eine säkulare politische Öffentlichkeit mit Gleichberechtigung zu tun? Nichts, sagt Joan Wallach Scott, der Säkularismus kann die Fortschritte der Gleichberechtigung nicht für s …
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Henry Reichman: Future of Academic Freedom
Few issues are as hotly debated or misunderstood as academic freedom. Reichman’s book sheds light on and brings clarity to those debates.Winner of the Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award by the American Lib …
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€33.68
Joan Wallach Scott: On the Judgment of History
In the face of conflict and despair, we often console ourselves by saying that history will be the judge. Today’s oppressors may escape being held responsible for their crimes, but the future will co …
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€24.99
Joan Wallach Scott & Debra Keates: Schools of Thought
Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This …
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€69.99
Joan Wallach Scott: In the Name of History
In this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who claim to act in its name-"in the name of history." Scott investigates …
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€15.26
Thomas J. Sugrue & Caitlin Zaloom: The Long Year
Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang n …
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€21.99
Joan Wallach Scott: Only Paradoxes to Offer
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 irreleva …
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€105.11
Joan Wallach Scott: A fantasia da história feminista
Em A fantasia da história feminista, Joan Wallach Scott argumenta que as perspectivas feministas sobre a história são enriquecidas por conceitos psicanalíticos, particularmente a fantasia. Ao traçar …
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€9.49
Joan Wallach Scott: Parite!
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 take …
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€47.39
Kathleen Biddick & Joan Wallach Scott: Shock of Medievalism
In The Shock of Medievalism Kathleen Biddick explores the nineteenth-century foundations of medieval studies as an academic discipline as well as certain unexamined contemporary consequences of these …
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€37.18
Joan Wallach Scott: Women’s Studies on the Edge
At many universities, women’s studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scot …
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€34.44
Joan Wallach Scott: 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 thinkin …
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