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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Rereading the History of Feminism -- 2. The Uses of Imagination: Olympe de Gouges in the French Revolution -- 3. The Duties of the Citizen: Jeanne Deroin in the Revolution of 1848 -- 4. The Rights of "the Social": Hubertine Auclert and the Politics of the Third Republic -- 5. The Radical Individualism of Madeleine Pelletier -- 6. Citizens but Not Individuals: The Vote and After -- Notes -- Index.

Esta comunicación contiene la lectura que Joan W. Scott elaboró como respuesta a los tres comentarios que Juan Ignacio Veleda, Rosa Belvedresi y Adriana Valobra realizaron sobre su libro La fantasía de la historia feminista, traducido por primera vez al español y publicado en marzo de 2023 por Editorial Omnívora. Se presenta el texto en inglés y luego su traducción al español.

Abstract
This essay argues for a definition of academic freedom that does not confuse it with what is considered to be a human right—the individual right to free speech. This is a freedom granted in principle by the state to scholars (usually within educational institutions: schools, colleges, and universities) because their critical activity has been considered vital to the public good and because it is a self-regulated activity committed to processes of relentless questioning that require disciplined forms of reading and reasoning. Neoliberal practices have undermined the basis for this classic definition of academic freedom. The essay explores the alternatives to state-ensured academic freedom that have emerged both within and outside the university, focusing particular attention on Turkey's Solidarity Academies. It concludes by insisting that the critical function of producing knowledge for the common good must be protected by nonstate actors if the state has broken the covenant upon which academic freedom once rested.

Between 1973 and 1977, Louise Tilly and Joan Scott wrote two articles and a book on the history of women that became a standard in the history of women, work, and the development of industrial capitalism. The authors occasionally met to work together, and they spoke on the phone, but mostly, the collaboration was based on their exchange of hundreds of letters. Based largely on the letters that Tilly wrote to her, Scott's reminiscence looks at the way that Louise combined her scholarly work with raising a family, and how she advanced the production of knowledge about women's history through her efforts to put more women and women's history on the program of major history conferences. Finally, the author details how their efforts to critique prevailing assumptions that the history of women's work was an expression of advancing individualist values, made possible by the expansion of the industrial city, resulted in the publication of Women, Work, and Family.

In the summer of 2011 a violent debate erupted in France over the meaning of the term gender. Catholics, parents and educators protested against a manual for biology students deemed to promote a 'theory of gender' that might endanger social order and corrupt young adults. The author traces the emergence of gender as a site for political strife in various context. As such the term seems to have replaced the term 'women' as a rallying cry for the mobilization of feminists. Gender has not only been a useful concept for feminist researchers and activists, Scott argues, but it has also been used in international politics. In the context of UN committees for policies on women, gender is used to plead for as well as against feminist policies. In addition to being used as an analytical concept, gender has become a contested political concept.

The Albert O. Hirschman Prize is the highest award of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). It recognizes academic excellence in international, interdisciplinary social science research, theory, and public communication in the tradition of the German-born American economist for whom it is named. It makes sense that the SSRC honors Hirschman in this way, for he was, as one biographical summary puts it, a "maverick economist." The same biography says that Hirschman lived in "the grey zone between economic and political theory," forging connections between them in unusual and extremely creative ways (homepage.newschool.edu/het//profiles/ hirschm.htm). His work in development economics insisted on attention to local structures and indigenous resources, arguing against the application of formal models and standard criteria, the dominant approach of modernization theorists. Ever concerned about political democracy, he explored its relationship to economics.