TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,Joan Wallach
TI  - Parité!: sexual equality and the crisis of French universalism 
T2  - Chicago studies in practices of meaning
SN  - 9780226741093 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HQ1236.5.F8 S36 2005eb
U1  - 320/.082/0944 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - France
KW  - Women political candidates
KW  - Equality
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Femmes en politique
KW  - Candidates (Élections)
KW  - Égalité des sexes
KW  - Féminisme
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - National
KW  - Reference
KW  - Essays
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Politici
KW  - Gelijkheid
KW  - Universalisme
KW  - Frankrijk
KW  - პოტიტიკური მეცნიერებანი--
KW  - ქალთა პოლიტიკური აქტიურობა
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-182) and index; The crisis of representation -- The rejection of quotas -- The dilemma of difference -- The campaign for parité -- The discourse of the couple -- The power of the law
N2  - France today is in the throes of a crisis about whether to represent social differences within its political system and, if so, how. It is 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 Parité! Joan Wallach Scott shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics. During the 1990s, le mouvement pour la parité successfully campaigned for women's inclusion in elective office with an argument that is unprecedented in the annals of feminism
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