Joan W. Scott
E48700
Joan W. Scott is an influential American historian and feminist theorist renowned for her pioneering work on gender as a category of historical analysis.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
→
feminist theorist → historian → human → writer → |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
→
|
| educatedAt |
Brandeis University
→
Brown University → |
| employer |
Institute for Advanced Study
→
|
| fieldOfWork |
French history
→
feminist theory → gender history → history → intellectual history → women's history → |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
gender studies
→
history → women's studies → |
| influencedBy |
French poststructuralist theory
→
Jacques Derrida → Michel Foucault → |
| knownFor |
contributions to feminist historiography
→
critical analysis of secularism and gender → theorizing gender as a category of historical analysis → work on French feminism → |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
→
French → |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
→
American Philosophical Society → |
| movement |
feminism
→
poststructuralism → |
| notableIdea |
critique of universalism in rights discourse
→
gender as a useful category of historical analysis → historicity of categories of identity → |
| notableWork |
Gender and the Politics of History
→
Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis → Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom → Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man → Sex and Secularism → The Fantasy of Feminist History → |
| occupation |
author
→
historian → university teacher → |
| positionHeld |
Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study
→
Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study → |
| sexOrGender |
female
→
|
| workLocation |
Princeton, New Jersey
→
|
Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Institute for Advanced Study
→
|
notableScholar |