Scott Joan Wallach Scott

Fantasy of Feminist History (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy. Tracing the evolution of her thinking about gender over the course of her career, the pioneering historian explains how her search for ways to more forcefully insist on gender as mutable rather than fixed or stable led her to psychoanalytic theory, which posits sexual difference as an insoluble dilemma. Scott suggests that it is the futile struggle to hold meaning in place that makes gender such an interesting historical object, an object that includes not only regimes of truth about sex and sexuality but also fantasies and transgressions that refuse to be regulated or categorized. Fantasy undermines any notion of psychic immutability or fixed identity, infuses rational motives with desire, and contributes to the actions and events that come to be narrated as history. Questioning the standard parameters of historiography and feminist politics, Scott advocates fantasy as a useful, even necessary, concept for feminist historical analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394730
• Artikelnr.: 54927073

Autorenporträt

Joan Wallach Scott is the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her many books include The Politics of the Veil, Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man, and Gender and the Politics of History.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vi
Introduction. "Flyers into the Unknown": Gender, History, Psychoanalysis 1
1. Feminism's History 23
2. Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity 45
3. Feminist Reverberations 68
4. Sexularism: On Secularism and Gender Equality 91
5. French Seduction Theory 117
Epilogue. A Feminist Theory Archive 141
Notes 149
Bibliography 169
Index 181