1st Edition

An Analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History

By Pilar Zazueta, Etienne Stockland Copyright 2017
96 Pages
by Macat Library

94 Pages
by Macat Library

96 Pages
by Macat Library

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,... Read more

Ways in to the text 

Who is Joan Wallach Scott?  

What does Gender and the Politics of History Say? 

Why does Gender and the Politics of History Matter? 

Section 1: Influences 

Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context 

Module 2: Academic Context 

Module 3: The Problem 

Module 4: The Author's Contribution 

Section 2: Ideas 

Module 5: Main Ideas 

Module 6: Secondary Ideas 

Module 7: Achievement 

Module 8: Place in the Author's Work 

Section 3: Impact 

Module 9: The First Responses 

Module 10: The Evolving Debate 

Module 11: Impact and Influence Today 

Module 12: Where Next? 

Glossary of Terms 

People Mentioned in the Text 

Works Cited

Biography

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.