Joan W. Scott
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Joan W. Scott is an influential American historian and feminist theorist renowned for her pioneering work on gender as a category of historical analysis.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joan W. Scott canonical | 8 |
| Joan Wallach Scott | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T387129 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joan W. Scott Context triple: [Institute for Advanced Study, notableScholar, Joan W. Scott]
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist, feminist critic, and postcolonial scholar best known for her influential essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and her work on deconstruction and global feminism.
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Rosemary Leith
Rosemary Leith is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and internet governance leader who co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation and serves on various boards related to technology and public policy.
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C.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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D.
Judith Plaskow
Judith Plaskow is a pioneering Jewish feminist theologian and scholar whose work has profoundly shaped contemporary feminist thought within Judaism.
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E.
Bettina Aptheker
Bettina Aptheker is an American political activist, feminist scholar, and professor known for her prominent role in the 1960s student movements and long-standing work in civil rights and social justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joan W. Scott Target entity description: Joan W. Scott is an influential American historian and feminist theorist renowned for her pioneering work on gender as a category of historical analysis.
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A.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist, feminist critic, and postcolonial scholar best known for her influential essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and her work on deconstruction and global feminism.
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B.
Rosemary Leith
Rosemary Leith is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and internet governance leader who co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation and serves on various boards related to technology and public policy.
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C.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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D.
Judith Plaskow
Judith Plaskow is a pioneering Jewish feminist theologian and scholar whose work has profoundly shaped contemporary feminist thought within Judaism.
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E.
Bettina Aptheker
Bettina Aptheker is an American political activist, feminist scholar, and professor known for her prominent role in the 1960s student movements and long-standing work in civil rights and social justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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feminist theorist ⓘ historian ⓘ human ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brandeis University
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Brown University ⓘ |
| employer | Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
French history
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feminist theory ⓘ gender history ⓘ history ⓘ intellectual history ⓘ women's history ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
gender studies
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history ⓘ women's studies ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
French poststructuralist theory
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Jacques Derrida ⓘ Michel Foucault ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to feminist historiography
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critical analysis of secularism and gender ⓘ theorizing gender as a category of historical analysis ⓘ work on French feminism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Philosophical Society ⓘ |
| movement |
feminism
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poststructuralism ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
critique of universalism in rights discourse
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gender as a useful category of historical analysis ⓘ historicity of categories of identity ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gender and the Politics of History
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Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis ⓘ Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom ⓘ Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man ⓘ Sex and Secularism ⓘ The Fantasy of Feminist History ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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historian ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study
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Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Princeton, New Jersey
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linked to:
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Joan W. Scott Description of subject: Joan W. Scott is an influential American historian and feminist theorist renowned for her pioneering work on gender as a category of historical analysis.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Joan W. Scott
linked to: Joan W. Scott