Parite!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)

by JoanWallachScott (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $36.43

  France is in the throes of a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation. In this book, the author shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics.