Gender and the Politics of History

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.

A radical book, provocative, exciting, and very satisfying.

Auteur
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).

Contenu
Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Toward a Feminist History

1. Women's History
2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
   Part II: Gender and Class
3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History
4. Women in The Making of the English Working Class
   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
6. A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l'industrie à Paris, 18471848
7. L'ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide . . .: Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 18401860
   Part IV: Equality and Difference
8. The Sears Case
9. American Women Historians, 18841984
10. The Conundrum of Equality
    Notes
    Index