Week 3.
Questions to ponder whilst you read…
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Were feminist historians successful in changing the discipline of history?
 Was the shift from ‘women’s history’ to ‘gender history’ a feminist move?
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How have feminist historians re-shaped our understandings of class in history?
 What do historians mean when they say that ‘gender is a category of historical analysis’?
K. Cowman, ‘"Carrying on a Long Tradition" : Second-Wave Presentations of First-
Wave Feminism in Spare Rib c. 1972—80’, European Journal of Women’s Studies
17:3 (2010) 193-210
D.L. Dworkin, ‘Remaking the British Working Class: Sonya Rose and Feminist
History’, in P. Levine & S.R. Grayzel (eds.),
Gender, Labour, War and Empire :
Essays on Modern Britain (2009)
G. Bock, ‘Women’s History and the History of Gender: Aspects of an International
Debate’,
Gender and History , 1 (1989)
J. Scott, Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis’,
The American Historical
Review , 91:5 (Dec, 1986), 1053-1075
L.L. Downs, ‘From Women’s History to Gender History’, in S. Berger, H. Feldner and K. Passmore (eds.)., Writing History: Theory and Practice (2003)
Joan Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (1988), esp. chs.1-2.
S.O. Rose, ‘Gender at Work. Sex, Class, and Industrial Capitalism’,
History
Workshop 21:1 (1986), 113-132
S. Todd, Young Women, Work and Family in England 1918-1950 (2005)
A. Clark, The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British
Working Class (1995) [Introduction]