Author: Joan Wallach Scott

In this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who claim to act in its namein ...

How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women Joan Wallach Scott's acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundationa...

In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, partic...

In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of conspicuous signs of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban appl...

This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and h...