Gender and Labor History: The nineteenth-century legacy

International Review of Social History

Volumn 38, Issue S1, 1993, Pages 145-162

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EID: 84976034063     PISSN: 00208590     EISSN: 1469512X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0020859000112349     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Michele Barrett, “Words and Things: Materialism and Method in Contemporary Feminist Analysis”, in Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates, edited by Michele Barrett and Anne Phillips (Stanford University Press, 1992), p. 212.
2. Michel Foucault maintains that through discursive rules, disciplines create their objects of analysis. See The Archaeology of Knowledge translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Harper Colophon, 1972); The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage, 1973).
3. See Sandra Harding, The Science Question in Feminism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986).
4. In an important essay, Leonore Davidoff argues that a series of concepts, based on gendered assumptions, came to dominate sociology and history influenced by sociological theory. See “’Adam Spoke First and Named the Orders of the World’: Masculine and Feminine Domains in History and Sociology”, in The Politics of Everyday Life: Continuity and Change in Work, Labour and the Family, edited by H. corrr and L. Jamieson (London: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 229–255. See also Susan Kingsley Kent, Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860–1914, (Princeton University Press, 1987), p. 5. As Richard Price notes: “Labour history has always privileged those who organized for and sought power in the public realm, be it industry or politics”. See “The Future of British Labour History”, International Review of Social History 36 (1991), pp. 249–260, esp. p. 252.
5. Mari Jo Buhle, “Gender and Labor History”, in Perspectives on American Labor History: The Problems of Synthesis, edited by J. Carroll Moody and Alice Kessler-Harris (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989), p. 67.
6. Joan W. Scott reveals how some of these themes arc central to E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class in Gender and the Politics of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), Chapter 4. For a critique of Scott's reading of Thompson, sec Marc W. Steinberg, “The Re-making of the English Working Class”, Theory and Society 20 (1991), pp. 173–197.