Gender and the Politics of History: revised edition

Joan Wallach Scott

September, 1999
Paper, 242 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11857-6
$27.00 / £16.00

"A tour de force—[the essays] reveal historical imagination relentlessly moving forward...as sophisticated advocacy for the case of theory, and illumination of the state of the art of women's history, there is nothing better than Gender and the Politics of History." — Voice Literary Supplement

"Scott has given us an intelligent, sensitive reflection on the nature of events, of thought, of judgement, of history....The questions Scott asks deserve pursuit. They will enlarge the scope of historical understanding and spawn new questions to be asked in turn." — The New Republic

"A real tour de force." — The New York Times

Related Subjects

• European History
• Women's Studies

Series

• Gender and Culture Series

About the Author

Joan Wallach Scott is professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is author of Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man, The Glassworkers of Carmaux for which she won the H.B. Adams Prize from the American Historical Association, and (with Louise Tilly) Women, Work, and the Family.

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