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Gender and the politics of history Joan Wallach Scott
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Joan Wallach.
- Series:
- Gender and culture.
- Gender and Culture Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Women--History--20th century.
- Sex role--History.
- Sex role.
- Working class women--History.
- Working class women.
- Women--Employment--France--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 pages).
- Edition:
- Thirteenth anniversary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY Columbia University Press [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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. 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. Exploring topics ranging from language and class to the politics of work and family, Gender and the Politics of History is a vital contribution to feminist history and historical methodology that also speaks more broadly to the ongoing redefinition of gender in our political and cultural vocabularies.This anniversary edition of a classic text in feminist theory and history shows the evergreen relevance of Scott’s work to the humanities and social sciences. 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 The book also includes a previously unpublished essay, “The Conundrum of Equality,” which takes up the question of affirmative action.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I: TOWARD A FEMINIST HISTORY
- PART II: GENDER AND CLASS
- PART III: GENDER IN HISTORY
- PART IV: EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Aug 2018)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-54761-7
- OCLC:
- 1021882029
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