As the final installment of the series “Sex, secularism, and ‘femonationalism,’” Sara Farris, author of In the Name of Women’s Rights,…
Joan Scott
Joan Wallach Scott is Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey). Her recent books are The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011) and Sex and Secularism (2017). In the fall of 2018, Columbia University Press published the thirtieth anniversary edition of her classic, Gender and The Politics of History. Columbia also published a collection of her essays, Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom. A new book, On The Judgment of History, will be published by Columbia in the fall of 2020.
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On Sex and Secularism
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Overall, the book aims to do two things: First, to offer a history that documents the ways in which gender…
Gender equality and Islamic headscarves
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