Joan W. Scott

American historian of France with contributions in gender history and intellectual history. She is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. See The Politics of the Veil, Princeton University Press, 2010.

Books Muslims, France and the Sexualization of National Culture Joan W. Scott · February 2018 Refusing to choose between the “liberation” that France wants to impose on them and the “repression” that would be inherent in their religion, many Muslims invent new sexual and gender practices.
Early in January (9 January 2018), Le Monde ran a series of articles responding to the Weinstein (…)
The Veil and the Political Unconscious of French Republicanism Joan W. Scott · April 2016 The French obsession with the veil exceeds that of most other countries in the West. Why? Analysis of an American historian specializing in France.
The official French preoccupation with the veil exceeds that of most other countries in Western Europe. In the Anglo-American world, even post (…)