Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man

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"Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man" is a seminal historical and theoretical study by Joan W. Scott that examines how French feminists from the Revolution onward engaged with and challenged the universalist yet exclusionary principles of modern democratic rights.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
feminist theory work
historical study
non-fiction book
addresses concept of the Rights of Man
modern democratic principles
rights of women
author Joan W. Scott
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
examines how women used the language of rights to claim citizenship
paradoxes of equality and difference in feminist politics
tension between universalism and exclusion in rights
fieldOfStudy French studies
feminist theory
history
political philosophy
focusesOn French feminists
modern democratic rights discourse
genre gender studies
intellectual history
political theory
hasAuthor Joan W. Scott
hasPerspective critical of exclusionary universalism
feminist
influenced historiography of French feminism
scholarship on gender and citizenship
language English
mainSubject French Revolution
French feminism
gender and citizenship
history of feminism
political rights
universal rights
notableFor analysis of French feminist engagement with the Rights of Man
theorization of paradox in feminist claims to rights
originalLanguage English
relatedWork Gender and the Politics of History
setIn France
theoreticalFramework discourse analysis
poststructuralist feminism
timePeriodCovered from the French Revolution onward

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