The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism

Abstract

Introduction / Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed Part I: Reading Joan Wallach Scott 1. Speaking Up, Talking Back: Joan Scott's Critical Feminism / Judith Butler Part II: The Case of History 2. Language, Experience, and Identity: Joan W. Scott and the Theoretical Challenge to Historical Studies / Miguel A. Cabrera 3. Out of Their Orbit: Celebrities and Eccentrics in Nineteenth-Century France / Mary Louise Roberts 4. Historically Speaking: Gender and Citizenship in Colonial India / Mrinalini Sinha 5. Gender and the Figure of the 'Moderate Muslim': Feminism in the Twenty-first Century / Elora Shehabuddin 6. A Double-Edged Sword: Sexual Democracy, Gender Norms, and Racialized Rhetoric / Eric Fassin Part III: Seeing the Question 7. Seeing beyond the Norm: Interpreting Gender in the Visual Arts / Mary D. Sheriff 8. Unlikely Couplings: The Gendering of Print Technology in the French Fin-de-Siecle / Janis Bergman-Carton 9. Screening the Avant-Garde Face / Mary Ann Doane Part IV: Body and Sexuality in Question 10. The Sexual Schema: Transposition and Transgenderism in Phenomenology of Perception / Gayle Salamon 11. Foucault and Feminism's Prodigal Children / Lynne Huffer 12. From the 'Useful' to the 'Impossible' in Joan W. Scott / Elizabeth Weed Thinking in Time: An Epilogue on Ethics and Politics / Wendy Brown Contributors Index