Feminism and History _Oxford Readings in Feminism _ Joan Wallach Scott

Feminism and History (Oxford Readings in Feminism) (1996)

Joan Wallach Scott

Format PDF 6.47 MB

Pages 669

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Joan Wallach Scott 1

I. Women

1. Does A Sex Have A History?

Denise Riley 17

2. The Dialectics of Black Womanhood

Bonnie Thornton Dill 34

3. Theorizing Woman: Funü, Guojia, Jiating (Chinese Women, Chinese State, Chinese Family)

Tani Barlow 48

II. Gender

4. 'Women's History' in Transition: The European Case

Natalie Zemon Davis 79

5. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex

Gayle Rubin 105

6. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis

Joan Wallach Scott 152

III. Race

7. African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 183

8. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia

Ann Laura Stoler 209

9. Equality and Difference in National Socialist Racism

Gisela Bock 267

IV. Class

10. Southern Honour, Southern Dishonour: Managerial Ideology and the Construction of Gender, Race, and Class Relations in Southern Industry

Dolores Janiewski 293

11. Sex and Skill: Notes Towards a Feminist Economics

Anne Phillips and Barbara Taylor 317

V. Sexuality

12. Discipline and Respectability: Prostitution and the Reformation in Augsburg

Lyndal Roper 333

13. The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg 366

14. Creating Boundaries: Homosexuality and the Changing Social Order in France, 18301870

Victoria Thompson 398

15. Female Desires: The Meaning of World War II

Marilyn Lake 429

VI. Feminisms

16. Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke

Elsa Barkley Brown 453

17. Gender in the Critiques of Colonialism and Nationalism: Locating the 'Indian Woman'

Mrinalini Sinha 477

18. A Gender Diary

Ann Snitow 505

VII. History

19. Historiography, Objectivity, and the Case of the Abusive Widow

Bonnie G. Smith 547

20. Women's Culture and Women's Power: Issues in French Women's History

Cécile Dauphin, Arlette Farge, et al. 568

Bibliography 597

Index 603