Research Catalog

Title

Gender and the politics of history / Joan Wallach Scott.

Author

Scott, Joan Wallach

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

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Details

Description

xviii, 263 pages; 23 cm

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 The book also includes a previously unpublished essay, "The Conundrum of Equality," which takes up the question of affirmative action. -- ‡c From publisher's description.

Series Statement

Gender and culture

Uniform Title

Gender and culture.

Subjects

• Women > Employment
• Working class women
• Sex role
• Women > History > 19th century
• 1800-1999
• Working class women > History
• Women > Employment > France > History > 19th century
• Sex role > History
• Women > History > 20th century
• History
• France

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I : Toward a Feminist History -- Women's History -- Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis -- Part II : Gender and Class -- On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History -- Women in The Making of the English Working Class -- Part III : Gender in History -- Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 1848 -- A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l'industrie à Paris, 1847-1848 -- "L'ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide . . .": Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840-1860 -- Part IV: Equality and Difference -- The Sears Case -- American Women Historians, 1884-1984 -- The Conundrum of Equality.

Call Number

JFE 18-2632

ISBN

• 9780231188012
• 0231188013

LCCN

2017052534

OCLC

1013528884

Author

Scott, Joan Wallach, author.

Title

Gender and the politics of history / Joan Wallach Scott.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Edition

30th anniversary edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Gender and culture

Gender and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2632