Format:
Online-Ressource (203 p.)
ISBN:
9780226741079
Series Statement:
Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Content:
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 takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation. In Parité! Joan Wallach Scott shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics. During the 1990s, le mouvement pour la parité successfully campaigned for women's inclusion in elective office with an argument that is unprecedented in the annals of feminism
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Crisis of Representation; 2. The Rejection of Quotas; 3. The Dilemma of Difference; 4. The Campaign for Parite; 5. The Discourse of the Couple; 6. The Power of the Law; Conclusion; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226741093
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226741079
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Parité! : Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism
Language:
English
Keywords:
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