num_pages: 242
description: Winner, in the original edition, of the 1989 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association, this landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a trenchant critique of women's history and gender inequality. Exploring topics ranging from language and gender to the politics of work and family, Gender and the Politics of History is a crucial interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis.The revised edition--in addition to providing a new generation of readers with access to a classic text in feminist theory and history--reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In provocatively 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.
language: English
title: Gender and the Politics of History
titlecomplete: Gender and the Politics of History
genres: Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, History, Gender Studies, Gender, Grad School, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic, Politics
ratings_count: 465
series: Gender and Culture Series
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History
publisher: Columbia University Press