LEADER 04381nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910455203403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-04338-3 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674043381 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805655 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050884 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000215133 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11204392 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000215133 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10184819 035 $a(PQKB)11282926 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300722 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300722 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331308 035 $a(OCoLC)923117039 035 $a(DE-B1597)574370 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674043381 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805655 100 $a19950720d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOnly paradoxes to offer$b[electronic resource] $eFrench feminists and the rights of man /$fJoan Wallach Scott 210 $aCambridge, MA ;$aLondon $cHarvard University Press$d1996 215 $a1 online resource (256p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 1996. 311 $a0-674-63930-8 311 $a0-674-63931-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [177]-224) and index. 327 $aPreface 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 330 $aJoan 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. 330 $bWhen 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 irrelevant for citizenship. On the other hand, by the fact that they acted on behalf of women, they introduced the very idea of difference they sought to eliminate. This paradox--the need both to accept and to refuse sexual difference in politics--was the constitutive condition of the long struggle by women to gain the right of citizenship. In this new book, remarkable in both its findings and its methodology, award-winning historian Joan Wallach Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox of sexual difference. Focusing on four French feminist activists--Olympe de Gouges, who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen during the French Revolution; Jeanne Deroin, a utopian socialist and candidate for legislative office in 1848; Hubertine Auclert, the suffragist of the Third Republic; and Madeleine Pelletier, a psychiatrist in the early twentieth century who argued that women must "virilize" themselves in order to gain equality--Scott charts the repetitions and variations in feminist history. Again and again, feminists tried to prove they were individuals, according to the standards of individuality of their day. Again and again, they confronted the assumption that individuals were men. But when sexual difference was taken to be a fundamental difference, when only men were regarded as individuals and thus as citizens, how could women also be citizens? The imaginative and courageous answers feminists offered to these questions are the subject of this engaging book. 606 $aFeminism$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aFeminism$zFrance$vCase studies 606 $aFeminists$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aFeminists$zFrance$vCase studies 606 $aHuman rights$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zFrance$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFeminism$xHistory. 615 0$aFeminism 615 0$aFeminists$xHistory. 615 0$aFeminists 615 0$aHuman rights$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xHistory. 676 $a305.420944 700 $aScott$b Joan Wallach$0174538 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455203403321 996 $aOnly paradoxes to offer$91260795 997 $aUNINA