When the French government passed a law banning Islamic headscarves in public schools, one of the justifications for it was that it would guarantee the equality of women. Professor Scott's talk will take a critical look at that justification. She will suggest that we need to reexamine universal ideas of women's emancipation and the political uses to which they are put.This talk is part of the Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History.

Sponsored by: Department of History and The Graduate Student Organizers of the Women's and Gender History Symposium

In conjunction with: Asian American Studies Program, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for Writing Studies, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Business, College of Communications, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Education, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of the Classics, Department of Computer Science, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Dance, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Educational Organization and Leadership, Department of English, Department of Geography, Department of History Race Initiative, Department of Physics, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Gender and Women's Studies Program, Office of Continuing Education, Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, School of Architecture, School of Social Work, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory