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Slaves, Immigrants, and Suffragists: The Uses of Disability in Citizenship Debates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Douglas Baynton
Douglas Baynton*
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University of Iowa
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In an article published nearly two de-cades ago, Joan Scott discussed the difficulty of persuading historians to take gender seriously. A common response to women's history was that “women had a history separate from men's, therefore let feminists do women's history, which need not concern us,” or “my understanding of the French Revolution is not changed by knowing that women participated in it.” Despite the substantial number of works on women's history, the topic remained marginal in the discipline. Simply adding women to history, Scott argued, while necessary and important, would not be sufficient to change the paradigms of the profession. To accomplish that, feminists had to demonstrate that gender was “a constitutive element of social relationships” and “a primary way of signifying relationships of power” (1055, 1067).

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Conference on Disability Studies and the University
Information
PMLA , Volume 120 , Issue 2 , March 2005 , pp. 562 - 568
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2005

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