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RR5 2-Joan-Wallach-Scott-Feminism page_iii < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii Feminism and History Oxford Readings in Feminism Edited by Joan Wallach Scott Oxford New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS < previous page page_iii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D|/a/Feminism%20and%20History%20(Oxford%20Readings%20in%20Feminism)/files/page_iii.html6/19/2010 11:34:29 PM page_iv < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Bombay Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford is a trade mark of Oxford University Press Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York Introduction and selection © Oxford University Press 1996 First published in hardback and paperback 1996 Reprinted in paperback 1997 All rights reserved. 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Women 1. Does A Sex Have A History? Denise Riley 17 2. The Dialectics of Black Womanhood Bonnie Thornton Dill 34 3. Theorizing Woman: Funü, Guojia, Jiating (Chinese Women, Chinese State, Chinese Family) Tani Barlow 48 II. Gender 4. 'Women's History' in Transition: The European Case 79 Natalie Zemon Davis 5. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex 105 Gayle Rubin 6. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis 152 Joan Wallach Scott III. Race 7. African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race 183 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 8. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia 209 Ann Laura Stoler 9. Equality and Difference in National Socialist Racism 267 Gisela Bock IV. Class 10. Southern Honour, Southern Dishonour: Managerial Ideology and the Construction of Gender, Race, and 293 Class Relations in Southern Industry Dolores Janiewski < previous page page_v next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D|/a/Feminism%20and%20History%20(Oxford%20Readings%20in%20Feminism)/files/page_v.html6/19/2010 11:34:30 PM page_vi < previous page page_vi next page > Page vi 11. Sex and Skill: Notes Towards a Feminist Economics 317 Anne Phillips and Barbara Taylor V. Sexuality 12. Discipline and Respectability: Prostitution and the Reformation in Augsburg 333 Lyndal Roper 13. The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America 366 Carroll Smith-Rosenberg 14. Creating Boundaries: Homosexuality and the Changing Social Order in France, 18301870 398 Victoria Thompson 15. Female Desires: The Meaning of World War II 429 Marilyn Lake VI. Feminisms 16. Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke 453 Elsa Barkley Brown 17. Gender in the Critiques of Colonialism and Nationalism: Locating the 'Indian Woman' 477 Mrinalini Sinha 18. A Gender Diary 505 Ann Snitow VII. History 19. Historiography, Objectivity, and the Case of the Abusive Widow 547 Bonnie G. Smith 20. Women's Culture and Women's Power: Issues in French Women's History 568 Cécile Dauphin, Arlette Farge, et al. Bibliography 597 Index 603 < previous page page_vi next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D|/a/Feminism%20and%20History%20(Oxford%20Readings%20in%20Feminism)/files/page_vi.html6/19/2010 11:34:30 PM page_vii < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ELSA BARKLEY BROWN teaches in the Department of History and Center for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan. Her articles have appeared in Signs, SAGE, History Workshop, and Feminist Studies. She was the recipient of the 1989 Lutetia Woods Brown Article Publication Prize and of the University of Kentucky's first Martin Luther King, Jr., Prize for the best scholarly article in African-American history. TANI BARLOW is a historian of modern China teaching in the Women Studies Program at the University of Washington. She has translated (with Gary Bjorge) I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Works of Ding Ling. She is co- editor (with Angela Zito) of Body, Subject, and Power in China; and editor of Gender Politics in Modern China. GISELA BOCK is professor of history at the University of Bielefeld (Germany). She has published books and articles, in a number of languages, on political thought and women's history in early modern Italy, the American labour movement, the history of women's domestic labour, National Socialist racism and sexism, women's place in the rise of the welfare state, and on theory and methodology of gender history. CÉCILE DAUPHIN et al. The contributors to this jointly-authored article all participated in an ongoing interdisciplinary seminar concerning the problematics of 'masculine/feminine', held at the Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH) of the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. Their names and affiliations at the time of publication are listed below: Cécile Dauphin (CRH-CNRS); Arlette Farge (CRH-CNRS); Geneviève Fraise (Philosophy-CNRS); Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (CRH-École des Hautes Études en Science Sociale (EHESS); Rose-Marie Lagrave (Sociology-EHESS); Michelle Perrot (History-University of Paris VII); Pierrette Pézsert (CRH- EHESS); Yannick Ripa (History-INRP); Pauline Schmitt-Pantel (History-University of Paris VII); Danièle Voldman (Institut d'Histoire du Temps Present-CNRS). NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. Her most recent book is Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives (1995). BONNIE THORNTON DILL is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is author of Across the Boundaries of Race and Class and co-editor with Maxine Baca Zinn of Women of Color in U.S. Society. She was founding director of the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis and she is currently working on a study of low-income single mothers in rural communities. < previous page page_vii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///D|/a/Feminism%20and%20History%20(Oxford%20Readings%20in%20Feminism)/files/page_vii.html6/19/2010 11:34:30 PM page_viii < previous page page_viii next page > Page viii EVELYN BROOKS HIGGINBOTHAM is Professor of Afro-American Studies (Arts and Sciences) and African American Religious History (Divinity) at Harvard University. She is the author of the prize-winning book Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 18801920 (1993). DOLORES JANIEWSKI is a Senior Lecturer in US History at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Her next monograph is a study of gender, race, citizenship, and criminality in the American South from 1866 to 1932, entitled Passion, Power, and Punishment. Her current research involves a comparative study of race, gender, and colonialism in Samoa, Hawaii, and three Native American societies. MARILYN LAKE was the founding Director of the Program in Women's Studies at La Trobe University, Australia, where she currently holds a Personal Chair in the School of History. Her most recent books include the feminist history of Australia, Creating a Nation (1994) with Patricia Grimshaw, Marian Quartly, and Ann McGrath, and Gender and War (1995) co-edited with Joy Damousi. She is currently writing a history of feminism in Australia, with special interest in feminist conceptions of citizenship. ANNE PHILLIPS is now Professor of Politics at London Guildhall University. Her interest in feminist economics resulted in the publication of Hidden Hands: Women and Economic Policies (1983), but her subsequent work has been in the field of political theory. Her most recent publications are Engendering Democracy (1991), Democracy and Difference (1993), and The Politics of Presence (1995). DENISE RILEY teaches at Goldsmiths' College, London University. Her prose books include War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983), and 'Am I That Name?' Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History (1988). She edited Poets on Writing: Britain 19701991. Her most recent collection of poetry is Mop Mop Georgette (1993). LYNDAL ROPER is an Australian who teaches history at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Germany (1989) and of Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, sexuality and religion in early modern Europe (1994).
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