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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778447403321

Autore

Scott Joan Wallach

Titolo

Only paradoxes to offer [[electronic resource] ] : French feminists and the rights of man / / Joan Wallach Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 1996

ISBN

0-674-04338-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256p.)

Disciplina

305.420944

Soggetti

Feminism - France - History

Feminism - France

Feminists - France - History

Feminists - France

Human rights - France - History

Women - France - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface Rereading the History of Feminism The Uses of Imagination: Olympe de Gouges in the French Revolution The Duties of the Citizen: Jeanne Deroin in the Revolution of 1848 The Rights of "the Social": Hubertine Auclert and the Politics of the Third Republic The Radical Individualism of Madeleine Pelletier Citizens but Not Individuals: The Vote and After Notes Index

Sommario/riassunto

Joan Wallach Scott's interpretation of the dilemma of feminism underlines the paradox that arises as theorists introduced the very idea of difference they had sought to eliminate by arguing from the standpoint that difference was irrelevant.