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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joan W. Scott canonical | 8 |
| Joan Wallach Scott | 2 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
academic
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feminist theorist ⓘ historian ⓘ human ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brandeis University
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Brown University ⓘ |
| employer | Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
French history
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feminist theory ⓘ gender history ⓘ history ⓘ intellectual history ⓘ women's history ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
gender studies
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history ⓘ women's studies ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
French poststructuralist theory
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Jacques Derrida ⓘ Michel Foucault ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to feminist historiography
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critical analysis of secularism and gender ⓘ theorizing gender as a category of historical analysis ⓘ work on French feminism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Philosophical Society ⓘ |
| movement |
feminism
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poststructuralism ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
critique of universalism in rights discourse
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gender as a useful category of historical analysis ⓘ historicity of categories of identity ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gender and the Politics of History
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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
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historian ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study
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Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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surface form:
Princeton, New Jersey
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Referenced by (10)
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Joan Wallach Scott
this entity surface form:
Joan Wallach Scott