Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Scott

Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Scott

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 The book also includes a previously unpublished essay, The Conundrum of Equality, which takes up the question of affirmative action.

Harold F. Scott's Joan Wallach Scott is the Harold F. Scott's Joan Wallach Scott is the Harold The Institute for Advanced Study's Linder Professor of Social Science The Politics of the Veil, Gender and the Politics of History, and Feminists Theorize the Political (co-edited with Judith Butler) are among her many books.

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ISBN 13	9780231065559
ISBN 10	0231065558
Title	Gender and the Politics of History
Author	Joan Scott
Series	Gender And Culture Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Year published	1988-09-01
Number of pages	242
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