Joan W. Scott

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Joan W. Scott is an influential American historian and feminist theorist renowned for her pioneering work on gender as a category of historical analysis.


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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

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Institute for Advanced Study
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