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Joan W. Scott’s Critical History of Inequality
Critique will be the art of voluntary insubordination.”1 Epigraph to her essay ”History-writing as Critique,”2 this quote from Michel Foucault is the key to understanding the epistemological journey of the American historian Joan W.
Scott. Professor Emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Scott is the author of numerous works on gender, feminism, and citizenship.
Joan scott feminism articles
A prolific and dynamic scholar, she has gone from studying social history to studying the history of women and then, in the 1980s, to studying the history of gender, becoming one of the first theorists in the field. With each shift in her historiographical focus, Scott has found the material needed to fuel her critical thought and shed light on the blind spots of social systems from the time of the French Revolution until the present day.
Always on the lookout for history’s paradoxes, she has spent her entire career combatting the naturalization of di