An Analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History
Gender and the Politics of History
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- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2017
Summary
Joan Scott’s work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott’s theories suggest that gender is better understood as a social construct than as a biological fact.
Scott’s original contribution to the debate, however, stems in her use of the critical thinking skill of analysis to understand how the arguments …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912128662 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1912128667 |
| Author: | Pilar Zazueta, Etienne Stockland |
| Publisher: | Macat International Limited |
| Imprint: | Macat International Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 110g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | The Macat Library |
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Pilar Zazueta
Dr Pilar Zazueta holds a PhD in history from Columbia University. She is currently a lecturer at the Teresa Lozano Lond Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, where her research focuses on gender and the History of Food and Nutrition Public Policy in Twentieth-Century Mexico.
Etienne Stockland is researching a PhD in Environmental History at Columbia University. He has taught at Columbia and at Sciences-Po.
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