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Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
title
Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
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publisher
the American Historical Association
publication year
1986
description
"Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis" is an article by Joan Wallach Scott first published in the American Historical Review (AHR) in 1986. It is one of the most cited papers in the history of the AHR and was reprinted as part of Scott's 1989 book Gender and the Politics of History. The paper begins by discussing three existing theoretical approaches to gender.[3] Scott then provides her own definition of gender in two parts: gender is based on the perceived differences between the sexes, but is also a way of signifying power differentials.[4] This second part of the definition is, according to William Sewell, "important and contentious", making a claim for the importance of gender in all areas of history.[3] The paper argues that the field of gender history should focus on social and political construction of gender.[5] It is, according to Dyan Elliott, a manifesto for the use of gender as a way of looking at the history of "male institutions".[6] The paper was influenced by the French philosophers Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault,[2] and Scott was influenced by the linguistic turn in history.[3]
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender:_A_Useful_Category_of_Historical_Analysis
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender:_A_Useful_Category_of_Historical_Analysis
education level
temporal
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reviewer
Katie Arthur
was created by
Scott, Joan W.