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

About the Author

Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her books include Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996); The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011); and Sex and Secularism (2017).

Reviews

A real tour de force . . . evidence of the value of Scott’s project to rethink gender and history simultaneously.
*New York Times*

Thoughtful and pioneering.
*Nation*

Scott has given us an intelligent, sensitive reflection on the nature of events, of thought, of judgment, of history.
*New Republic*

At once a ‘how-to’ manual . . . and a broad assessment of the state of women’s history in the 1980s. It will clearly become a classic volume for both feminist theory and women’s history.
*Gender and Society*

Scott’s book makes a powerful case not only for a historical scholarship that recognizes the depth of gender difference in human experience but also for a renewed self-consciousness about the role of the historian in constructing the meanings of our past.
*American Historical Review*

A radical book, provocative, exciting, and very satisfying.
*Journal of Social History*