Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her books include Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996); The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011); and Sex and Secularism (2017).

• Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Toward a Feminist History1. Women’s History2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical AnalysisPart II: Gender and Class3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History4. Women in The Making of the English Working ClassPart III: Gender in History5. Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 18486. A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l’industrie à Paris, 1847–18487. “L’ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide . . .”: Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840–1860Part IV: Equality and Difference8. The Sears Case9. American Women Historians, 1884–198410. The Conundrum of EqualityNotesIndex

A real tour de force . . . evidence of the value of Scott’s project to rethink gender and history simultaneously.

Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her books include Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996); The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011); and Sex and Secularism (2017).

• Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Toward a Feminist History1. Women’s History2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical AnalysisPart II: Gender and Class3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History4. Women in The Making of the English Working ClassPart III: Gender in History5. Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 18486. A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l’industrie à Paris, 1847–18487. “L’ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide . . .”: Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840–1860Part IV: Equality and Difference8. The Sears Case9. American Women Historians, 1884–198410. The Conundrum of EqualityNotesIndex

A real tour de force . . . evidence of the value of Scott’s project to rethink gender and history simultaneously.

Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her books include Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996); The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011); and Sex and Secularism (2017).

• Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Toward a Feminist History1. Women’s History2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical AnalysisPart II: Gender and Class3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History4. Women in The Making of the English Working ClassPart III: Gender in History5. Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 18486. A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l’industrie à Paris, 1847–18487. “L’ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide . . .”: Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840–1860Part IV: Equality and Difference8. The Sears Case9. American Women Historians, 1884–198410. The Conundrum of EqualityNotesIndex

A real tour de force . . . evidence of the value of Scott’s project to rethink gender and history simultaneously.