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Parité! : sexual equality and the crisis of French universalism /
France today is in the throes of a crisis about whether to represent social differences within its political system and, if so, how. It is a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation. In Pa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | France today is in the throes of a crisis about whether to represent social differences within its political system and, if so, how. It is a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation. In Parité! Joan Wallach Scott shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics. During the 1990s, le mouvement pour la parité successfully campaigned for women's inclusion in elective office with an argument that is unprecedented in the annals of feminism. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 191 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-182) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226741093 0226741095 9780226741079 0226741079 9780226741086 0226741087 |