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Article: Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man.
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- June 22, 1998
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Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man. By Joan Wallach Scott. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 229. $27.95.)
The broad goal of this book is to take an epistemological step beyond the "equality versus difference" debate that has for too long bogged down feminist theory and embattled feminist politics. Joan Scott demonstrates that this paradox has always existed, but it has been produced by prevailing republican ideologies that in and of themselves have been contradictory. Her analysis centers on four feminists: Olympe de Gouges during the Revolution of 1789; Jeanne Deroin in the Revolution of 1848; Hubertine ...
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