Gender and the Politics of History (eBook)

Joan Wallach Scott (Autor)

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2018
288 Seiten
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54761-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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. In this anniversary edition, Scott reflects on the book’s legacy and implications for contemporary politics as well as her engagement with psychoanalytic theory.

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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 The book also includes a previously unpublished essay, "e;The Conundrum of Equality,"e; which takes up the question of affirmative action.

Autor

Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her books include Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996); The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011); and Sex and Secularism (2017).

Inhalt

Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Toward a Feminist History1. Women’s History2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical AnalysisPart II: Gender and Class3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History4. Women in The Making of the English Working ClassPart III: Gender in History5. Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 18486. A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l’industrie à Paris, 1847–18487. “L’ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide . . .”: Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840–1860Part IV: Equality and Difference8. The Sears Case9. American Women Historians, 1884–198410. The Conundrum of EqualityNotesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Culture Series
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Culture Series
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54761-7 / 0231547617
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54761-1 / 9780231547611