Maison de la Paix - Pétale 1
in Geneva 1211
Lecture by Professor Joan Wallach Scott
Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita, School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey
Since its adoption by feminists in the 1970s, the term gender has become widely used to refer to inequalities between women and men. It has also become the target of conservatives who find it a dangerously radical re-visioning of the meanings of the differences of sex. The talk will explore the many uses of the term and assess its enduring impact.
Professor Joan Wallach Scott is internationally acclaimed for her work theorising the concept of gender. Her now classic book, Gender and the Politics of History, was just published in a thirtieth anniversary edition. She has also more specifically focused on the vexed relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalising force of democratic politics. Her most recent books are The Fantasy of Feminist History(2011) and Sex and Secularism (2017). She has also written incisive essays on academic freedom, to be published as Knowledge, Power and Academic Freedom in January 2019.
Joan Wallach Scott is the recipient of the 2018 Edgar de Picciotto International Prize.
The lecture will be live streamed via the Graduate Institute webpage indicated below.
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