Gender: a useful category of historical analysis

by Joan Wallach Scott

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Essays

Unknown Binding

About the author

Joan Scott is known internationally for writings that theorize gender as an analytic category. She is a leading figure in the emerging field of critical history. Her ground-breaking work has challenged the foundations of conventional historical practice, including the nature of historical evidence and historical experience and the role of narrative in the writing of history, and has contributed to a transformation of the field of intellectual history. Scott's recent books focus on gender and democratic politics. Her works include The Politics of the Veil (2007), Gender and the Politics of History (1988), Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996), and Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (2005). Scott graduated from Brandeis University in 1962 and received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969. Before joining the Institute for Advanced Study, Scott taught in the history departments of Brown University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Rutgers University.

Reviews

[misael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nós só podemos escrever a história desse processo [político] se reconhecermos que “homem” e “mulher” são, ao mesmo tempo, categorias vazias e transbordantes. Vazias, porque não têm nenhum significado último, transcendente. Transbordantes, porque mesmo quando parecem estar fixadas, ainda contêm dentro delas definições alternativas, negadas ou suprimidas.

[valen ✰]

De todos los textos y charlas con perspectiva feminista del año pasado (hablo de los de la facultad), este fue uno de los pocos que personalmente me incomodó (en el buen sentido).
Valoro muchísimo los textos que te descolocan de lo que era tan sólido!! Capaz no es el mejor texto feminista de la historia, pero con respecto al conocimiento que *yo* tenía, me abrió puertas a querer investigar más.
La anoto para volver a leer a la autora (y releer el texto). 👍🏼

[Rosella · Rating 5 out of 5]

Creo que es de los pocos textos de clase que me he leído muy a gusto y me he enterado de mucho.

[Helena Martínez Díaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Realmente useful si escribes una tesis de historia (de la música)