Gender and the Politics of History / / Joan Wallach Scott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Scott, Joan Wallach,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1988]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 1988
• Language: English
• Series: Gender and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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" -- 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, 1847 - 1848 -- 7. "L'ouvrière! Mot impie, sordide . . .". Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840 - 1860 -- Part IV. Equality and Difference -- 8. The Sears Case -- 9. American Women Historians, 1884-1984 -- Notes -- Index