2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Toward a Feminist History
6. 1. Women’s History 15
7. 2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis 28
8. Part II. Gender and Class
9. 3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History 53
10. 4. Women in “The Making of the English Working Class” 68
11. III. Gender in History
12. 5. Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 1848 93
13. 6. A Statistical Representation of Work. La Statistique de l’industrie à Paris, 1847 – 1848 113
14. 7. “L'ouvrière! Mot impie, sordide . . .”. Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840 – 1860 139
15. Part IV. Equality and Difference
16. 8. The Sears Case 167
17. 9. American Women Historians, 1884–1984 178
18. Notes 199
19. Index 233