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The Fantasy of Feminist History (Paperback, New)
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The Fantasy of Feminist History (Paperback, New)
Series: Next Wave Provocations
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In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that
feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic
concepts, particularly fantasy. Tracing the evolution of her
thinking about gender over the course of her career, the pioneering
historian explains how her search for ways to more forcefully
insist on gender as mutable rather than fixed or stable led her to
psychoanalytic theory, which posits sexual difference as an
insoluble dilemma. Scott suggests that it is the futile struggle to
hold meaning in place that makes gender such an interesting
historical object, an object that includes not only regimes of
truth about sex and sexuality but also fantasies and transgressions
that refuse to be regulated or categorized. Fantasy undermines any
notion of psychic immutability or fixed identity, infuses rational
motives with desire, and contributes to the actions and events that
come to be narrated as history. Questioning the standard parameters
of historiography and feminist politics, Scott advocates fantasy as
a useful, even necessary, concept for feminist historical analysis.
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