Gender and the Politics of History

Gender and the Politics of History by Scott, Joan Wallach. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780231118576.

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 womens 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 books 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.