Gender and the Politics of History

Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Toward a Feminist History 1. Women's History 2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis Part II: Gender and Class 3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History 4. Women in The Making of the English Working Class Part III: Gender in History 5. Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 1848 6. A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l'industrie a Paris, 1847-1848 7. L'ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide . . .: Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840-1860 Part IV: Equality and Difference 8. The Sears Case 9. American Women Historians, 1884-1984 10. The Conundrum of Equality Notes Index