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title: "Joan W Scott"
date: "2008-03-03T00:00:00+00:00"
modified: "2008-03-03T00:00:00+00:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/contributors/joan-w-scott/"
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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.