The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism

CONTENTS

CONTENTS Introduction 1 Judith Butler and ElizabethWeed PART 1 READING JOAN WALLACH SCOTT 1 Speaking Up,Talking Back: Joan Scott’s Critical Feminism | Judith Butler 11 PART 2 THE CASE OF HISTORY 2 Language, Experience, and Identity: JoanW. Scott’sTheoretical Challenge to Historical Studies | Miguel A.Cabrera 31 3 Out of Their Orbit: Celebrities and Eccentrics in Nineteenth-Century France | Mary Louise Roberts 50 4 Historically Speaking: Gender and Citizenship in Colonial India | Mrinalini Sinha 80 5 Gender and the Figure of the “Moderate Muslim”: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century | Elora Shehabuddin 102 6 A Double-Edged Sword: Sexual Democracy, Gender Norms, and Racialized Rhetoric | Éric Fassin 143 PART 3 SEEING THE QUESTION 7 Seeing Beyond the Norm: Interpreting Gender in theVisual Arts | Mary D.Sheriff 161 8 Unlikely Couplings:The Gendering of PrintTechnology in the French Fin-de-Siècle | Janis Bergman-Carton 187 9 Screening the Avant-Garde Face | Mary Ann Doane 206 PART 4 BODY AND SEXUALITY IN QUESTION 10 The Sexual Schema:Transposition andTransgenderism in Phenomenology of Perception | Gayle Salamon 233 11 Foucault and Feminism’s Prodigal Children | Lynne Huffer 255 12 From the “Useful” to the “Impossible” in theWork of JoanW. Scott | ElizabethWeed 287 Thinking inTime:An Epilogue on Ethics and Politics 312 Wendy Brown List of Contributors 319 Index 321 ...