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An Analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History - Gender and the Politics of History (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History - Gender and the Politics of History (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians
and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the
discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of
conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott's theories suggest that
gender is better understood as a social construct than as a
biological fact. Scott's original contribution to the debate,
however, stems in her use of the critical thinking skill of
analysis to understand how the arguments of earlier generations of
historians were built in order to fully grasp both their structure
and the assumptions that underpinned them. From there, Scott was
able to use problem-solving to resolve the issues that emerged from
her analysis, asking productive questions focused on better ways to
build a model capable of explaining the historical phenomenon of
gender difference. Scott answered these questions by introducing
models created by deconstructionist scholars - notably Jacques
Derrida, who challenged the idea that any term or concept has a
stable or dependable meaning rooted in material reality. She was
able, in consequence, to refute that idea that gender inequality is
the natural (hence justifiable) consequence of biological sexual
differences, and issue a fundamental challenge to the capitalist
system itself.
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