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Joan W Scott

Joan W Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Her many books include Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man; Parité: Sexual Equality and The Crisis of French Universalism. Her latest book The Politics of the Veil (Princeton University Press) was published in 2007.

Articles by Joan W Scott

Forced to be free

France’s ban on headscarves was hailed as a victory for secularism. But, argues Joan W Scott, its political roots are more sinister

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