Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
Author(s): Joan W. Scott
Source: The American Historical Review, Vol. 91, No. 5 (Dec., 1986), pp. 1053-1075
Published by: American Historical Association
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1864376
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