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Author: Joan Wallach Scott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Edition: thirtieth anniversary edition
ISBN: 9780231188012
ISBN 10: 0231188013
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 23 January 2018
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
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 A radical book, provocative, exciting, and very satisfying.--Journal of Social History 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 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 * 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 * 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 has given us an intelligent, sensitive reflection on the nature of events, of thought, of judgment, of history. * New Republic * Thoughtful and pioneering. * Nation * A real tour de force . . . evidence of the value of Scott's project to rethink gender and history simultaneously. * New York Times *
A real tour de force . . . evidence of the value of Scott's project to rethink gender and history simultaneously.--New York Times Scott has given us an intelligent, sensitive reflection on the nature of events, of thought, of judgment, of history.--New Republic 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 Thoughtful and pioneering.--Nation 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 A radical book, provocative, exciting, and very satisfying.--Journal of Social History
A real tour de force. --Praise for the previous edition, The New York Times
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
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 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 real tour de force . . . evidence of the value of Scott's project to rethink gender and history simultaneously.--New York Times 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 A radical book, provocative, exciting, and very satisfying.--Journal of Social History
Author Information
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).
