Contents

Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: TOWARD A FEMINIST HISTORY

  1.  Women’s History

  2.  Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis

PART II: GENDER AND CLASS

  3.  On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History

  4.  Women in The Making of the English Working Class

PART III: GENDER IN HISTORY

  5.  Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 1848

  6.  A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l’industrie à Paris, 1847–1848

  7.  “L’ouvrière! Mot impie, sordide…”: Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840–1860

PART IV: EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE

  8.  The Sears Case

  9.  American Women Historians, 1884–1984

10.  The Conundrum of Equality

Notes

Index