Joan Wallach Scott
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joan Wallach Scott is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history. She is a professor emerita in the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Scott is known for her work in feminist history and gender theory, engaging post-structural theory on these topics. Geographically, her work focuses primarily on France, and thematically she deals with how power works, the relation between language and experience, and the role and practice of historians. Her work grapples with theory's application to historical and current events, focusing on how terms are defined and how positions and identities are articulated.
Joan Wallach Scott's Published Works
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Published Works
- Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis (1986) (3028)
- The Evidence of Experience (1991) (1900)
- Gender and the Politics of History (2018) (1193)
- Feminists Theorize the Political (1992) (935)
- Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference : or, The Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism (1988) (913)
- Women, Work and Family (1979) (544)
- The Politics of the Veil (2007) (339)
- Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996) (309)
- Women's Work and the Family in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1975) (202)
- Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity (2001) (189)
- Feminism and history (1996) (136)
- Gender: Still a Useful Category of Analysis?: (2010) (108)
- On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History (1987) (100)
- Transitions, environments, translations : feminisms in international politics (1997) (96)
- Debating P.C.: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses (1992) (95)
- The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011) (90)
- Parité!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (2005) (90)
- Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity (1992) (86)
- Feminist thought : desire, power, and academic discourse (1996) (83)
- Sex and Secularism (2017) (75)
- Symptomatic Politics: The Banning of Islamic Head Scarves in French Public Schools (2005) (70)
- Women's Studies on the Edge (1999) (64)
- Feminism's History (2004) (62)
- Science for Every Student: Educating Canadians for Tomorrow's World (1985) (59)
- History in Crisis? The Others' Side of the Story (1989) (59)
- The Domestic Revolution: The Modernisation of Household Service in England and France, 1820-1920 (1976) (52)
- History-writing as critique (2007) (49)
- Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968 (1996) (48)
- The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City (1976) (42)
- Schools of thought : twenty-five years of interpretive social science (2003) (41)
- “La Querelle des Femmes” in the Late Twentieth Century (1997) (36)
- French Feminists and the Rights of ‘Man’: Olympe de Gouges's Declarations (1989) (34)
- Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom (2014) (34)
- The Mechanization of Women's Work. (1982) (34)
- The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake (1992) (32)
- Learning about women : gender, politics, and power (1989) (32)
- Unanswered QuestionsJoan W. ScottUnanswered Questions (2008) (31)
- The incommensurability of psychoanalysis and history. (2012) (30)
- Going public : feminism and the shifting boundaries of the private sphere (2004) (30)
- French Universalism in the Nineties (2004) (30)
- SURVEY ARTICLES WOMEN IN HISTORY THE MODERN PERIOD (1983) (29)
- The Critical State of Shared Governance. (2002) (29)
- Academic Freedom as an Ethical Practice. (1995) (27)
- Feminist Reverberations (2003) (27)
- Women in History: The Modern Period (1992) (26)
- Universalism and the History of Feminism (1995) (23)
- The Uses and Abuses of Gender (2013) (22)
- Comment on Hawkesworth's "Confounding Gender" (1997) (19)
- Introduction: Feminism’s Critical Edge (2008) (18)
- History and Difference (1992) (16)
- “The Tip of the Volcano” (1993) (15)
- The Female Population of France in the Nineteenth Century: A Reconstruction of 82 Departements. Etienne van de Walle (1976) (15)
- The Campaign against Political Correctness (1991) (15)
- Comment: Conceptualizing Gender in American Business History (1998) (15)
- A Reply to Criticism (1987) (13)
- Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference (2018) (12)
- The Mythmaking Frame of Mind: Social Imagination and American Culture (1993) (12)
- Theses on Theory and History (2020) (11)
- Hijab & the Republic: Uncovering the French Headscarf Debate (2009) (11)
- Radicalism in Mediterranean France: Its Rise and Decline, 1848-1914 (1974) (10)
- Response to Gordon. (1990) (10)
- Book Review:Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence Linda Gordon (1990) (9)
- 2 Storytelling (1967) (6)
- Social history and the history of socialism: french socialist municipalities in the 1890's (1980) (6)
- The “Class” We Have Lost (2000) (6)
- Gender studies and translation studies: “Entre braguette” – connecting the transdisciplines (2016) (6)
- The Conundrum of Equality (2002) (6)
- Comment on "Women's History and the National History Standards" (2010) (6)
- The Legal Agency of Single Mothers : Lawsuits over Illegitimate Children and the Uses of Legal Aid to the Poor in the Dutch Town of Leiden ( 1750 – 1810 ) (2015) (5)
- Feminist Family Politics (1999) (4)
- Emancipation and Equality: A Critical Genealogy (2012) (4)
- New Documents on the Lives of French Women: The Journal of Caroline B., 1864-1868 (1987) (4)
- Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World.Jacquelyn Hall , James Leloudis , Robert Korstad , Mary Murphy , Lu Ann Jones , Christopher B. Daly (1989) (4)
- Women's Studies on the Edge. Introduction (1997) (3)
- :The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 17501850 (2007) (3)
- The Dilemma of Difference (2005) (3)
- September 11 and the academic profession a symposium (2002) (3)
- Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State by John R. Bowen Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism by Cihan Tuǧal (2011) (3)
- Making Clinical Trials Financially Viable (2000) (3)
- Writing Women, Work, and Family: The Tilly-Scott Collaboration (2015) (3)
- Academic freedom and tenure: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (2015) (3)
- College and university governance : the University of Virginia governing board's attempt to remove the president. (2013) (3)
- Remarks on the Awarding of the Albert O. Hirschman Prize to Charles Tilly (2010) (2)
- Targeted Harassment of Faculty: What Higher Education Administrators Can Do. (2018) (2)
- Urban and Rural Artisans in Nineteenth-Century France (1977) (2)
- On Academic Boycots (2006) (2)
- Academic freedom and tenure: The University of Southern Maine (2015) (2)
- A Woman who has only paradoxes to offer (2018) (2)
- Academic Freedom and Tenure: University of South Florida (2003) (2)
- 1. Women’s History (1988) (2)
- Reflections on Women and Gender in Twentieth‐Century Mexico Introduction (2008) (2)
- The Edge. Interview (1997) (2)
- A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America (review) (2012) (2)
- When the Margin Is the Center: African-American Feminism(s) and "Difference" (2013) (2)
- French Seduction Theory (2011) (2)
- Academic Freedom and Tenure: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015) (2)
- Academic freedom and tenure: City University of New York (2004) (2)
- Academic freedom and tenure: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge: A supplementary report on a censured administration (2016) (2)
- Academic Freedom and Tenure: The College of Saint Rose (New York) (2016) (2)
- Letters: Rock Throwing Raises Hackles (2001) (2)
- The Provocations of Enduring Friendships (2017) (1)
- Academic freedom and tenure: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (April 2015) (2015) (1)
- Gender and the Vatican (2017) (1)
- The Power of the Law (2005) (1)
- Feminism and the humanities year at the humanities research centre, ANU (1986) (1)
- Women and religion in nineteenth-century France (2013) (1)
- After State Socialism (2013) (1)
- Chapter 2. Racism (2007) (1)
- Can Sociology Make Theoretical Sense of Gender?@@@Feminists Theorize the Political.@@@Theory on Gender, Feminism on Theory. (1994) (1)
- How did the male become the normative standard for clinical drug trials? (1993) (1)
- Love and Politics in Wartime: Letters to My Wife, 1943-45 (1992) (1)
- Gender studies and translation studies (2016) (1)
- LA NOUVELLE LAÏCITÉ AND ITS CRITICS: PREFACE TO THE FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THE POLITICS OF THE VEIL (2018) (1)
- Academic freedom and tenure: Felician College (New Jersey) (2015) (1)
- Academic freedom and tenure: Meharry Medical College (Tennessee) (2004) (1)
- Religious Experience: Joan Wallach Scott: “The Evidence of Experience,” from Critical Inquiry (2012) (1)
- Finding Critical History (2019) (1)
- Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod (review) (2015) (1)
- Introduction: “Flyers into the Unknown”: Gender, History, and Psychoanalysis (2011) (1)
- The Rhetoric of Crisis in Higher Education (2020) (1)
- After History? (1)
- Politics and Professionalism: Women Historians in the 1980s (1981) (1)
- Women in the Family Wage Economy (2016) (0)
- Books of Critical Interest (1992) (0)
- The End of Innocence (2013) (0)
- Please Join Us For a session on The American Association of University Professors at 100: A Century of Activity in Defense of Academic Freedom. (2015) (0)
- Archive Angst (0)
- Stranded Histories: Allegories of Artificial Life (2020) (0)
- Defamiliarizing Practices: The Scene of Feminist Pedagogy (2013) (0)
- Report of Committee A 2001-02 (2002) (0)
- The Uses and Abuses of Gender : Planery lecture at Södertörn University March 26, 2012 (2013) (0)
- Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space and Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France (2007) (0)
- Women, Work and the French State: Labour Protection and Social Patriarchy, 1879-1919 (1990) (0)
- The Campaign for Parité (2005) (0)
- The Post‐Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750–1850. By Jan Goldstein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+414. $45.00. (2007) (0)
- Book Review:The French Revolution of 1830 David H. Pinkney (1973) (0)
- The Question of Parity. Editorial Note (1997) (0)
- Reply to the Hilden Critique (1979) (0)
- SANAT EĞİTİMİNDE BİLGİSAYARLAR COMPUTERS IN ART EDUCATION (1999) (0)
- Book Reviews : Olwen Hufton, The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe. Volume 1, 1500-1800. London: Harper Collins, 1995, pp. xiv+656. U.S.$47.95 (hardcover (1997) (0)
- France, 1848-1945. Theodore Zeldin (1974) (0)
- Higher Education and Middle Eastern Studies following September 11, 2001: Four Presidents Speak out for Academic Freedom (2002) (0)
- Massimiliano Tomba, Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 286.) (2020) (0)
- For More on “Gender”. .. Round Table (2007) (0)
- FEATURE ARTICLES The Radical Conscientious Objectors of World War 11: Wartime Experience and Postwar Activism (1988) (0)
- Reproductive Futurism (2019) (0)
- Bede’s Blush: Postcards from Bali, Bombay, Palo Alto (2012) (0)
- English America: Worth Dying For? (2020) (0)
- Ten-Years of the History of Women in the United States (1981) (0)
- Political Emancipation (2019) (0)
- Report of Committee A 2000-01 (2001) (0)
- Democracy without Women: Feminism and the Rise of Liberal Individualism in France.Christine Fauré , Claudia Gorbman , John Berks (1992) (0)
- Women, Work, and Family@@@Women in Europe since 1750 (1980) (0)
- Report of Committee A 2002-03 (2003) (0)
- Sexual Emancipation (2019) (0)
- Workers and Protest: The European Labor Movement, the Working Classes and the Origins of Social Democracy, 1890-1914. Harvey Mitchell , Peter N. Stearns (1973) (0)
- How Families Reproduce the Inequalities of Capitalism (2020) (0)
- Gender and Sex (2014) (0)
- Economy and Demography (2016) (0)
- Women in the Family Consumer Economy (2016) (0)
- Book Review:Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution. Joan B. Landes (1991) (0)
- The Discourse of the Couple (2005) (0)
- Feminism’s Difference Problem (2014) (0)
- The Devil’s Anal Eye: Inquisitorial Optics and Ethnographic Authority (2012) (0)
- Book Review:The French Second Republic: A Social History Roger Price (1973) (0)
- Report of Committee A 2004-05 (2005) (0)
- Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History (2018) (0)
- Abstracts (2010) (0)
- Les dones a The Making of the English Working Class (1999) (0)
- Debunking the Myth of Sexual Freedom and Secularism (2019) (0)
- Humanist History and the Haunting of Virtual Technologies: Problems of Memory and Rememoration (2020) (0)
- Comment on Robert Nye's “Le Pacte de Solidarité and the History of Sexuality” (2003) (0)
- Conversations with Saba Mahmood (2019) (0)
- Chapter 3. Secularism (2007) (0)
- The Discourse of Secularism (2019) (0)
- The Politics of Development (2013) (0)
- Western Societies, a Documentary History (1984) (0)
- In the Name of History (2019) (0)
- Chapter Six. The Power of the Law (2019) (0)
- Report of Committee A 2003-04 (2004) (0)
- French Universalism in the 1990s (2006) (0)
- On the Judgment of History (2019) (0)
- Book Review:Victorian Ladies at Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914 Lee Holcombe (1974) (0)
- Introduction to Academic Boycotts (2006) (0)
- Academic freedom and tenure: University of Missouri (Columbia) (2016) (0)
- Books (1990) (0)
- Hijab: the struggle goes on (2009) (0)
- Popular Theater and Socialism in Late–Nineteenth-Century France (2020) (0)
- The Rejection of Quotas (2005) (0)
- Conference call. (1990) (0)
- After 9/11: Disturbances and Reverberations (2020) (0)
- la traduction infidèle (1999) (0)
- Book Review:The Making of the Modern Family Edward Shorter (1977) (0)
- Book Review:Professional Work and Marriage: An East-West Comparison Marilyn Rueschemeyer (1982) (0)
- From the Cold War to the Clash of Civilizations (2019) (0)
- Comments on Matteo Bortolini’s A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah (2022) (0)
- "La querelle des femmes" a finales del siglo XX (1999) (0)
- Gothic Ornament and Sartorial Peasants (2020) (0)
- Rewriting History (2017) (0)
- Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England. Trygve TholfsenWomen in Trade Unions: An Outline History of Women in the British Trade Union Movement. Sheila Lewenhak (1979) (0)
- Chapter Two. The Rejection of Quotas (2019) (0)
- Difference as a Useful Category for Historical Analysis (2008) (0)
- Changes in Women's Work Since World War II (2016) (0)
- Chapter Five. The Discourse of the Couple (2019) (0)
- Report of Committee a 1999-2000 (2000) (0)
- Computergraphia : new visions of form, fantasy, and function (1984) (0)
- Socialization in Two French Villages (1973) (0)
- In Support of Academic Freedom (2017) (0)
- Women and Religion (2019) (0)
- The Crisis of Representation (2005) (0)
- Book reviews (2010) (0)
- Psychology and History: The incommensurability of psychoanalysis and history (2014) (0)
- What Kind of Freedom is Academic Freedom? (2021) (0)
- Academic freedom and tenure: University of the Cumberlands (Kentucky) (2005) (0)
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