The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism

A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, ""Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,"" this volume explores the current uses of the term -- and the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of difference -- such as race, class, and sexuality -- inflected existing fields of study and created new ones? To what extent has this concept modified or bee