Gender and the Politics of History

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Gender and the Politics of History

Author	: Joan Wallach Scott
File Size	: 52,7 Mb
Publisher	: Columbia University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 19 May 1999
ISBN	: 0231118570
Pages	: 294 pages

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Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott Book PDF Summary

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 of gender. In arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book. From publisher description.

Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott

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Gender and the Politics of History by Pilar Zazueta,Etienne Stockland

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Sex and Secularism by Joan Wallach Scott

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On the Judgment of History by Joan Wallach Scott

In the face of conflict and despair, we often console ourselves by saying that history will be the judge. Today’s oppressors may escape being held responsible for their crimes, but the future will condemn them. Those who stand up for progressive values are on the right side of history.

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Traditional analyses of nineteenth-century politics have assigned women a peripheral role. By adopting a broader interpretation of political participation, the author identifies how middle-class women were able to contribute to political affairs in the nineteenth century. Examining the contribution that women made to British political life in the period 1800-1870

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The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as

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