Gender and the politics of history / Joan Wallach Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Joan Wallach, author.

Series:

Gender and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--19th century.

Women.

History.

Women--History--20th century.

Sex role--History.

Sex role.

Working class women--History.

Working class women.

Women--Employment--France--History--19th century.

Women--Employment.

France.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 263 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Thirtieth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Summary:

This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Exploring topics ranging from language and class to the politics of work and family, Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women's history, arguing that political and social categories are always fundamentally shaped by gender and that questions of gender are essential to considerations of difference in history. This thirtieth anniversary edition of Gender and the Politics of History shows the ongoing relevance of Scott's work. In a new preface, Scott reflects on the book's legacy and implications for contemporary politics, as well as what she has reconsidered as a result of her engagement with psychoanalytic theory. The book also includes a previously unpublished essay, "The Conundrum of Equality," which takes up the question of affirmative action. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Toward A Feminist History

1 "Women's History 15

2 Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis 28

Part II Gender and Class

3 On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History 53

4 "Women in The Making of the English Working Class 68

Part III Gender in History

5 Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 1848 93

6 A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l'industrie à Paris, 1847-1848 113

7 "L'ouvrière! Mot impie, sordide ...": Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840-1860 139

Part IV Equality and Difference

8 The Sears Case 167

9 American Women Historians, 1884-1984 178

10 The Conundrum of Equality 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231188012

0231188013

OCLC:

1013528884