their time...["Only Paradoxes to Offer"] is successful and
important in its exposure of the internal contradictions, dilemmas
and 'obsessive repetitions' of the feminist experience.
thought which will also add much to contemporary feminist
inquiry.
through the eyes of its most persistent feminist critics.
will be of great value to scholars engaged in feminist critical
theory, women's studies and French history.
with the methodological production of facticity will find this work
exemplary of the contributions of postmodernism to the construction
of the past.
"Only Paradoxes to Offer" is a valuable and stimulating book which
synthesises a number of theoretical issues and applies them in
original ways to specific historical contexts. It will be of great
value to scholars engaged in feminist critical theory, women's
studies and French history. -- Felicia Gordon "Women's Philosophy
Review ÝUK¨"
In her subtle and provocative new book, Joan Scott convincingly
argues that the exclusion of women was central to the logic of
French republicanism in the 19th century, and she traces the
workings of this logic through the eyes of its most persistent
feminist critics. -- Joshua Cole "Village Voice Literary
Supplement"
Readers of this book will enjoy discovering (or rediscovering) four
compelling women, while marveling at how the terms of earlier
feminism are at once familiar and strange. Rather than taking the
category of women for granted as the subject of feminist discourse
and politics, Scott argues that feminist agency is itself
profoundly paradoxical...ÝT¨his book contributes a probing
intellectual history of the central questions in modern feminist
thought which will also add much to contemporary feminist inquiry.
-- Joan B. Landes "American Political Science Review"
The four feminists examined in this book all had differing ideas
about Ýthe¨ problem of women's 'equality' or 'difference', ideas
that Scott clearly shows to be a product of the dominant political
discourses of their time...Ý"Only Paradoxes to Offer"¨ is
successful and important in its exposure of the internal
contradictions, dilemmas and 'obsessive repetitions' of the
feminist experience. -- Jane Freedman "Modern and Contemporary
France ÝUK¨"
Those interested in feminism, postmodernism, historiography, and/or
the fundamental assumptions that sustain contemporary political
debates will find this book richly rewarding. Philosophers of
science concerned with the methodological production of facticity
will find this work exemplary of the contributions of postmodernism
to the construction of the past. -- Mary Hawkesworth "Canadian
Philosophical Reviews"
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