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Article: Parite!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- September 22, 2007
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Parite!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, by Joan Wallach Scott. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi, 191 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $22.00 US (paper).
Joan Scott's history of the mouvement pour la parite, a movement that emerged in France to increase the numbers of women in elective office, is particularly timely. The fact that the French Socialist party endorsed the country's first female presidential candidate in 2007, when women constituted no more than six per cent of the Chamber of Deputies and three per cent of the Senate ten years earlier, attests to the influence that the movement has had, even though the presidential ...