19/04/2013
Joan W. Scott visits Istanbul for a lecture
Feminist historian and author of the book The Fantasy of Feminist History, Princeton University professor Joan Wallach Scott is in Turkey for a series of lectures organized by Kültür ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar magazine to commemorate the publishing of the Turkish edition of The Fantasy of Feminist History. Scott’s first lecture was at Boğaziçi University on Wednesday, April 17.
Scott will discuss the concept of gender in her lecture titled “The Use and Abuse of Gender” on Saturday, April 20 at the Karaköy Minerva Palas. Scott will question whether gender can continue to be an area of feminist struggle in the 21st century.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Lecture : The Use and Abuse of Gender
Time : 14.00
Place : Karaköy Minerva Palas, Bankalar Caddesi No:2
Organized by: Kültür ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar Magazine & Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Forum
About Joan Wallach Scott
Joan Scott was born Joan Wallach in Brooklyn, New York in 1941. She graduated from Brandeis in 1962 and received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969. Scott taught in history departments at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rutgers University, the Johns Hopkins University. At Brown University she was founding director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Scott has been the Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 1985.
Her current work focuses on the vexed relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force of democratic politics. Scott’s publications include Gender and the Politics of History (Columbia University Press, 1988); Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (Harvard University Press, 1996); Parité: Sexual Difference and the Crisis of French Universalism (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and "The Politics of the Veil" (Princeton University Press, 2007). The Turkish translation of her The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011) has been published by bgst Publishing in 2013.
