An interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis. The revised edition reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category

A self-critical intellectual autobiography, the nine essays in Gender in the Politics of History are a tour de force-they reveal historical imagination relentle

Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and

Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and

"Drawing on a wealth of scholarship by second-wave feminists and historians of religion, race, and colonialism, Scott shows that the gender equality invoked tod