“The insistence that ‘laïcité’ is a fundamental principle is a
cover for a continued assault on the rights of Muslim citizens in
French society,” Joan W. Scott,
Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, said in a
telephone interview with...
In the West, when non-white men are implicated in cases of
sexual harassment and violence, the debate inevitably is much less
about the nature of gender-based violence and its systemic presence
in our societies, and much more about the "evidence"...
“There is a longstanding commitment to the notion that the
French do gender relations differently — especially from prudish
Americans — and that has to do with the French understanding of
seduction,” said Joan Scott,
Professor Emerita in the School...
Theoretical astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan writes in the
New York Review of Books:
In the late nineteenth century, the term “computer” referred not
to a machine but to a person who took measurements, graphed data,
and made calculations that...
