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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewA real tour de force . . . evidence of the value of Scott’s project to rethink gender and history simultaneously. * New York Times *
Thoughtful and pioneering. * Nation *
Scott has given us an intelligent, sensitive reflection on the nature of events, of thought, of judgment, of history. * New Republic *
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 *
A radical book, provocative, exciting, and very satisfying. * Journal of Social History *
Table of ContentsPreface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Toward a Feminist History1. Women’s History
2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
Part II: Gender and Class3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History
4. 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 1848
6. 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, 1840–1860
Part IV: Equality and Difference
8. The Sears Case
9. American Women Historians, 1884–1984
10. The Conundrum of Equality
Notes
Index
