Joan W. Scott

Dr. Joan W. Scott

Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.

email: jws@ias.edu

Some recent publications

The Fantasy of Feminist History. Duke University Press.

The Politics of the Veil. Princeton University Press.

Théorie Critique de l’Histoire: Identités, expériences, politiques. Fayard.

Texts to download

 “The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation and Equality”History of the Present, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 148-168.

“The Incommensurability of Psychoanalysis and History”History and Theory, no. 51, pp. 63-83.

“The Provocations of Enduring Friendship”Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 28-39.

“Storytelling”History and Theory, no. 50, pp. 203-209.

“Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom”Social Research, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 451-480.

“Finding Critical History”, en Banner, J. & Gillis, J., eds. Becoming Historians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 26-53.

“Unanswered Questions”American Historical Review, vol. 113, no. 5, pp. 1422-1430.

“History-Writing as Critique”, en Jenkins, K., Morgan, S. & Munslow, A., eds. Manifestos for History. London: Routledge, pp. 19-38.

“Feminism’s History”Journal of Women’s History, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 10-29.

“Against Eclecticism”Differences, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 114-137.

“Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity”Critical Inquiry, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 284-304.