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Joan Wallach Scott, a historian who helped to shape the fields of gender and womens history, argues for the usefulness of psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy, for feminist historical analysis.
Acknowledgments vi Introduction. "Flyers into the Unknown": Gender, History, Psychoanalysis 1 1. Feminism's History 23 2. Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity 45 3. Feminist Reverberations 68 4. Sexularism: On Secularism and Gender Equality 91 5. French Seduction Theory 117 Epilogue. A Feminist Theory Archive 141 Notes 149 Bibliography 169 Index 181