Joan Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She was previously at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and at Brown University, where she was the founding director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.

excellent book ... historians, feminist and cultural theorists and the 'general reader' would all find the book worthwhile. The style is uniformly clear, the range of reference scholarly and wide, and the arrangement useful if unsurprising.

Joan Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She was previously at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and at Brown University, where she was the founding director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.

excellent book ... historians, feminist and cultural theorists and the 'general reader' would all find the book worthwhile. The style is uniformly clear, the range of reference scholarly and wide, and the arrangement useful if unsurprising.

Joan Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She was previously at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and at Brown University, where she was the founding director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.

excellent book ... historians, feminist and cultural theorists and the 'general reader' would all find the book worthwhile. The style is uniformly clear, the range of reference scholarly and wide, and the arrangement useful if unsurprising.