Parité!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism

by Joan Wallach Scott

Book Overview

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 Parit Joan Wallach Scott shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226741087
• ISBN13: 9780226741086
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"