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1	Gender and the Politics of History: Revised Edition more books like this by Joan Wallach Scott Winner, in the original edition, of the 1989 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association, this landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a trenchant critique of women's history and gender inequality. Exploring topics ranging from language and gender to the politics of work and family, "Gender and the Politics of History" is a ... see all copies from $8.58! new only from $19.17! \| SVS
2	Western Societies: A Documentary History more books like this by Brian Tierney These volumes present a collection of primary source materials from the earliest times to the present intended for use in college courses in Western Civilization. An outstanding feature of the book is the wide variety of source materials included - readings from literary classics, letters, biographies, chronicles, diaries, philosophic and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.50! \| first editions
3	Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present more books like this by Marilyn J Boxer, Jean H Quataert, Joan W Scott (Foreword by) In Connecting Spheres, Boxer and Quataert, along with an array of eminent contributors, examine the social history of women within western civilization over the past 500 years. Expanded and updated, this new edition addresses both long-standing and more recent issues which have affected women's live in modern Europe. These topics include the role ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.84! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Gender and the Politics of History more books like this by Joan W Scott A self-critical intellectual autobiography, the nine essays in Gender in the Politics of History are a tour de force-they reveal historical imagination relentlessly moving forward... see all copies from $4.84! new only from $191.65! \| first editions
5	Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man more books like this by Joan Wallace Scott When feminists argued for political rights in the context of liberal democracy they faced an impossible choice. On the one hand, they insisted that the differences between men and women were irrelevant for citizenship. On the other hand, by the fact that they acted on behalf of women, they introduced the very idea of difference they sought to ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $26.28! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Glassworkers of Carmaux more books like this by Joan Wallace Scott This study analyzes in close detail the experiences of glassworkers as mechanization transformed their trade from a highly skilled art to a semiskilled occupation. Ms. Scott argues that changes in the organization of work altered the life style and political outlook of glassworkers. These changes also created a new identity for them as residents ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Women, work, and family more books like this by Louise A. Tilly, Joan W. Scott "Women, Work and Family" is a classic of women's history and is still the only text on the history of women's work in England and France, providing an excellent introduction to the changing status of women from 1750 to the present. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.00! \| first editions
8	The Politics of the Veil more books like this by Joan Wallach Scott In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $18.08! \| SVS
9	Connecting Spheres: Women in the Western World, 1500 to the Present more books like this by Marilyn J Boxer (Editor), Jean H Quataert (Editor), Joan W Scott (Designer) Combining modern feminist thought with the main themes of Western civilization, this book puts women back into history. From Italy to Kenya, from Britain to Russia, it examines the impact of religious reformation, political centralization, scientific, industrial, and political revolutions, world markets, and welfare states on women of diverse ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $78.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Mythmaking Frame of Mind: Social Imagination and American Culture more books like this by James Gilbert, Amy Gilman, Joan W Scott see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Feminism and History more books like this by Joan Wallach Scott (Editor) The question of difference - between women and men and among women - is at the heart of feminist theory and the history of feminism. Feminists have long debated the meanings of sexual difference: is it an underlying truth of nature or the result of changing social belief? Are women the same as or different from men? Feminism and History argues ... see all copies from $3.58!
12 view cover	Love and Politics in Wartime: Letters to My Wife, 1943-45 more books like this by Benedict S Alper, Joan W Scott (Editor) An intelligent and politically engaged man who was approaching forty, Ben Alper tried for nearly two years to join actively in the war against fascism. Finally, in September 1943, he was accepted by the army, assigned to the military police, and shipped out to serve in Northern Africa and Italy. Thus began a daily stream of letters to Ethel, his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Learning about Women: Gender, Politics, and Power more books like this by Jill Ker Conway, Susan C Bourque (Editor), Joan W Scott (Editor) Essays by leading scholars provide an introduction to feminist inquiry and theory. see all copies from $1.99!
14 view cover	Parite!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism more books like this by Joan Wallach Scott France today is in the throes of a crisis about whether to represent social differences within its political system and, if so, how. It is a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation. In "Parite!" Joan Wallach Scott shows how the ... see all copies from $16.50! new only from $17.95! \| SVS
15 view cover	Womens Studies on the Edge more books like this by Joan W Scott (Editor) At many universities, women's studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scott notes in her introduction to this collection, in the wake of its institutional successes, women's studies has begun to lose its critical purchase. ... see all copies from $16.60! new only from $22.26! \| SVS
16	Women's history as women's education : essays. by Natalie Zemon Davis, Joan Wallach Scott see all copies from $4.00!
17 view cover	Going Public: Feminism and the Shifting Boundaries of the Private Sphere more books like this by Joan W Scott (Editor), Debra Keates (Editor) In Going Public, a collection of international thinkers convene to reconsider the public/private distinction, an issue long central to feminists in their academic and political work. The feminist critique of rights has been fundamental to changes in Western liberal democracy and global human rights campaigns. These essays, in geographically and ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $20.00! \| SVS
18	Les Femmes, Le Travail Et La Famille by Louise A.; Scott Tilly, Joan W.; Lebailly, Monique see all copies from $19.01!
19	Les Femmes, Le Travail Et La Famille by Louise A.; Scott Tilly, Joan W.; Lebailly, Monique see all copies from $114.97! new only from $114.97!

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