Feminism and History (Oxford Readings in Feminism) [Paperback]

Joan Wallach Scott (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 23, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0198751699 | ISBN-13: 978-0198751694

This stimulating volume offers a cross-disciplinary selection of recent articles on feminist history. Dismissing essentialist accounts of a universal female identity, the contributors examine how ideas about sexual difference are shaped by specific socio-historical circumstances. How, for example, do issues such as race, class, gender, and sexuality impact on the experience of "women"? How are such categories defined in widely disparate cultures and time periods? Refreshingly open to non-western, as well as western, perspectives, Feminism and History addresses subjects from the experience of women in Colonial Asia to the ideology of sexual difference in Nazi Germany. Timely, provocative, and influential, these essays raise intriguing questions about the future direction of women's history.

Editorial Reviews

Review

`excellent book ... historians, feminist and cultural theorists and the 'general reader' would all find the book worthwhile. The style is uniformly clear, the range of reference scholarly and wide, and the arrangement useful if unsurprising.' Penny Florence, Women's Philosophy Review

About the Author

Joan Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She was the founding director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 620 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (May 23, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198751699
• ISBN-13: 978-0198751694
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #693,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)