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In her article, Joan W. Scott argues that gender is a useful category for historians to use in their analysis of past societies. She asserts that gender involves cultural definitions of behaviors, attributes, and roles assigned to men and women. Scott also maintains that historians must analyze how gender relations shaped political, economic, and cultural institutions and processes in the past.

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Scott - Gender

In her article, Joan W. Scott argues that gender is a useful category for historians to use in their analysis of past societies. She asserts that gender involves cultural definitions of behaviors, attributes, and roles assigned to men and women. Scott also maintains that historians must analyze how gender relations shaped political, economic, and cultural institutions and processes in the past.

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Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis Author(s): Joan W.

Scott Reviewed work(s): Source: The American Historical Review, Vol. 91, No. 5 (Dec., 1986), pp. 1053-1075 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the American Historical Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1864376 . Accessed: 17/04/2012 11:09
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