Author: Agacinski, Sylviane
Title: Parity of the Sexes
Description: New York :Columbia University Press, 2001 Paperback. 208 pp. English text. Condition : very good. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Sylviane Agacinski has never shied away from controversy. Vilified by someâ including many feministsâ and celebrated by others as a pioneer of gender equality, she has galvanized the French political scene. Her articulation of the theory of parity helped inspire a law that went into effect in May 2000 requiring the country's political parties to fill 50 percent of the candidacies in every race with women. Sylviane Agacinski, according to The New Yorker, is sometimes credited with making parité respectable. Agacinski begins with the notion that sexual difference should be affirmed rather than denied. Sex, Agacinski points out, is not a social, cultural, or ethnic characteristicâ it is a universal human trait. In her argument for the necessary recognition of sexual difference, she enters into today's most controversial social territory. ISBN 9780231115674.

Keywords: , Gender identity