Gender and the Politics of History / Edition 2

by Joan Wallach Scott

Overview

Winner, in the original edition, of the 1989 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association, this landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a trenchant critique of women's history and gender inequality. Exploring topics ranging from language and gender to the politics of work and family, Gender and the Politics of History is a crucial interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis.

The revised edition—in addition to providing a new generation of readers with access to a classic text in feminist theory and history—reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In provocatively arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231118576
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	11/23/1999
Series:	Gender and Culture Series
Edition description:	revised edition
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 5.80(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Joan Wallach Scott is professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is author of Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man, The Glassworkers of Carmaux for which she won the H.B. Adams Prize from the American Historical Association, and (with Louise Tilly) Women, Work, and the Family.

Table of Contents

I. Toward a Feminist History
II. Gender and Class
III. Gender in History
IV. Equality and Difference

Editorial Reviews

A tour de force—[the essays] reveal historical imagination relentlessly moving forward...as sophisticated advocacy for the case of theory, and illumination of the state of the art of women's history, there is nothing better than Gender and the Politics of History.

Voice Literary Supplement

Scott has given us an intelligent, sensitive reflection on the nature of events, of thought, of judgement, of history....The questions Scott asks deserve pursuit. They will enlarge the scope of historical understanding and spawn new questions to be asked in turn.

The New Republic

A real tour de force.

The New York Times

Scott has given us an intelligent, sensitive reflection on the nature of events, of thought, of judgement, of history....The questions Scott asks deserve pursuit. They will enlarge the scope of historical understanding and spawn new questions to be asked in turn.

New Republic

A real tour de force.

New York Times

At once a ‘how-to’ manual . . . and a broad assessment of the state of women’s history in the 1980s. It will clearly become a classic volume for both feminist theory and women’s history.

Gender and Society

Scott’s book makes a powerful case not only for a historical scholarship that recognizes the depth of gender difference in human experience but also for a renewed self-consciousness about the role of the historian in constructing the meanings of our past.

American Historical Review

Thoughtful and pioneering.

Nation

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

Journal of Social History

Thoughtful and pioneering.

Nation Daryl