Joan Wallach Scott

Joan Wallach Scott is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history. She is a professor emerita in the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Scott is known for her work in feminist history and gender theory, engaging post-structural theory on these topics. Geographically, her work focuses primarily on France, and thematically she deals with how power works, the relation between language and experience, and the role and practice of historians. Her work grapples with theory's application to historical and current events, focusing on how terms are defined and how positions and identities are articulated.

18 December 1941

Born on the same birth date (18 December 1941): Sam Andrew • Wadada Leo Smith

Born on the same birth day (18 December): Abe Burrows • Ashley Benson • Bill Holland • Bobby Keys • Charles Griffin • Claudia Gesell • DMX • George Stevens • Jacques Pépin • John Cooper (hurdler) • Justin Edinburgh • Katie Holmes • Mario Basler • Norman Brown (guitarist) • Philipp von Hutten • Richard Maury • Richard Olivier de Longueil • Roméo LeBlanc

Born in the same month (December 1941): Bob Brown (offensive lineman) • Bobby Elliott • Dan Hicks (singer) • Dave Dee • Ed Brinkman • Ellen Willis • Intikhab Alam • J. P. Parisé • Lesley Stahl • Maurice White • Ray Thomas • Rogier van Otterloo