Gender and the Politics of History

Joan Wallach Scott

Published by Columbia University Press 1988

Gender and the Politics of History

Joan Wallach Scott

In the series Gender and Culture

https://doi.org/10.7312/scot91266

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A collection of articles on the themes of gender and history, which attempts to articulate the nature of the connection between the two. It focuses on the variable and contradictory meanings attributed to sexual difference and the political processes by which those meanings are developed and contested.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Toward a Feminist History
1. Women’s History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Part II. Gender and Class
3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. Women in “The Making of the English Working Class” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
III. Gender in History
5. Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 1848 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6. A Statistical Representation of Work. La Statistique de l’industrie à Paris, 1847 – 1848 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
7. “L'ouvrière! Mot impie, sordide . . .”. Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840 – 1860 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Part IV. Equality and Difference
8. The Sears Case Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
9. American Women Historians, 1884–1984 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 244

eBook

Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9780231882880