A collection of articles on the themes of gender and history, which attempts to articulate the nature of the connection between the two. It focuses on the variable and contradictory meanings attributed to sexual difference and the political processes by which those meanings are developed and contested.
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Gender and the Politics of History
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Table of contents
- Contents
- 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”
- 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'ouvrière! 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
- Notes
- Index
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