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.
- Table of Contents
- Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
- 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
- Part 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’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
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