Joan Wallach Scott - Bibliography - Articles

Articles

• "The Glassworkers of Carmaux," Nineteenth Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History, edited by S. Thernstrom and R. Sennett. (Yale University Press, 1969), pp. 3–48.
• "Les Verriers de Carmaux, 1865-1900," Le Mouvement Social 76 (1971), pp. 67–93.
• "Women's Work and the Family in 19th Century Europe," (coauthored with Louise Tilly) The Family in History, C. Rosenberg, ed. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975), pp. 145–178.
• "Labor History in the United States since the 1960's," Le Mouvement Social, No. 100 (July 1977), pp. 121–131.
• Recent U.S. Scholarship on the History of Women (coauthored with B. Sicherman, W. Monter, K. Sklar). American Historical Association, 1980.
• "Social History and the History of Socialism: French Socialist Municipalities in the 1890's," Le Mouvement Social 111 (Spring 1980), pp. 145–153.
• "Political Shoemakers," (coauthored with Eric Hobsbawm) Past and Present 89 (November 1980), pp. 86–114.
• "Dix Ans de l'histoire des femmes aux états-unis," Le Débat 19 (1981), pp. 127–132 (translated into Spanish for publication in Débat, 1984).
• "Politics and the Profession: Women Historians in the 1980's," Women's Studies Quarterly 9:3 (Fall 1981).
• "Mayors versus Police Chiefs: Socialist Municipalities Confront the French State," in John Merriman, ed., French Cities in the Nineteenth Century. (London, Hutchinson 1982), pp. 230–45.
• "Popular Theater and Socialism in Late Nineteenth Century France," in Seymour Drescher, David Sabean, and Allen Sharlin, eds., Political Symbolism in Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of George L. Mosse. (New Brunswick, Transaction Books 1982), pp. 197–215.
• "The Mechanization of Women's Work," Scientific American 247:3 (September 1982), pp. 166–87.
• "Women's History: The Modern Period," Past and Present 101 (November 1983), pp. 141–57.
• "Men and Women in the Parisian Garment Trades: Discussions of Family and Work in the 1830's and 40's," R. Floud, G. Crossick and P. Thane, eds., The Power of the Past: Essays in Honor of Eric Hobsbawm. (Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 67–94.
• "Statistical Representations of Work: The Chamber of Commerce's Statistique de l'Industrie à Paris, 1847-48," in Stephen Kaplan, ed., Work in 18th and 19th Century France. (Cornell University Press, 1986), pp. 335–363.
• "Women's History as Women's Education: Representations of Sexuality and Women's Colleges in America," (Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 1986).
• "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," American Historical Review 91, No. 5 (December 1986), pp. 1053–75. (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Estonian, and Polish translations).
• "On Language, Gender, and Working Class History," International Labor and Working Class History 31(Spring 1987), pp. 1–13 and "Reply to Critics of This Piece," 32 (Fall 1987), pp. 39–45. (Spanish and Swedish translations).
• "'L'Ouvrière! Mot Impie, Sordide...' Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy (1840-1860)," in Patrick Joyce, ed., The Historical Meanings of Work. (Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 119–42. French translation in Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 83 (June 1990), pp. 2–15.
• "Rewriting History," in Margaret Higonnet, et al., eds., Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars. (Yale University Press, 1987), pp. 19–30.
• "History and Difference," Daedalus (Fall 1987), pp. 93–118. "Deconstructing Equality-versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism," Feminist Studies (Spring 1988), pp. 33–50.
• "The Problem of Invisibility," in S. Jay Kleinberg, ed., Retrieving Women's History: Changing Perceptions of the Role of Women in Politics and Society. (London and Paris, Berg/Unesco 1988), pp. 5–29.
• "History in Crisis? The Others' Side of the Story," American Historical Review 94 (June 1989), pp. 680–692.
• “Interview with Joan Scott,” Radical History Review 45 (1989), pp. 41–59.
• "French Feminists and the Rights of 'Man': Olympe de Gouges' Declarations," History Workshop No. 28 (Autumn 1989), pp. 1–21.
• "A Woman Who Has Only Paradoxes to Offer: Olympe de Gouges Claims Rights for Women," in Sara E. Melzer and Leslie W. Rabine, eds., Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution. (New York, Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 102–20.
• "Women's History," in New Perspectives on Historical Writing, Peter Burke, ed. (London, Polity Press, 1991), pp. 42–66.
• "Rethinking the History of Women's Work," chapter for Vol. IV of Storia della Donne, edited by Michelle Perrot and Georges Duby (Rome, Laterza, 1990; Paris, Plon, 1991; Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 773–797.
• "The Evidence of Experience," Critical Inquiry (Summer 1991); reprinted in various collections of essays, and in Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines, edited by James Chandler, Arnold I. Davidson, and Harry Harootunian (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 363–387. Spanish translation 2001.
• "Liberal Historians: A Unitary Vision," Chronicle of Higher Education, September 11, 1991, pp. B1-2.
• "The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake?" Change (November/December 1991), pp. 30–43; reprinted in Radical History Review, 1992, pp. 59–79; also in various collections of essays.
• "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity," October 61 (Summer 1992), pp. 12–19; reprinted in The Identity in Question, John Rajchman, ed. (New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 3–12.
• "The New University: Beyond Political Correctness," Boston Review, (March/April 1992), pp. 29–31.
• "The Rhetoric of Crisis in Higher Education," in Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities, edited by Michael Bérubé and Cary Nelson. (Routledge, 1995), pp. 293–334.
• "Academic Freedom as an Ethical Practice," in The Future of Academic Freedom, edited by Louis Menand. (University of Chicago Press, 1996), pp. 163–180.
• "Forum: Raymond Martin, Joan W. Scott, and Cushing Strout on 'Telling the Truth About History,'" History and Theory, Vol. 34 (1995), pp. 329–334.
• "Vive la différence!" Le Débat, November–December 1995, pp. 134–139. "After History?", Common Knowledge, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Winter, 1996), pp. 9–26.
• "'La Querelle des Femmes' in Late Twentieth Century France," New Left Review Nov./Dec. 1997, pp. 3–19 (French translation: Parité-infos, #19, Sept. 1997).
• "Border Patrol," contribution to "Forum" A Crisis in History? On Gérard Noiriel's Sur la Crise de l'Histoire," French Historical Studies 21:3 (Summer 1998) pp. 383-397.
• “Some Reflections on Gender and Politics,” in Revisioning Gender, Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber, and Beth B. Hess, ed. (Sage Publications, 1999), pp. 70–96.
• “Entretien avec Joan Scott,” Mouvements: Sociétés, politique, culture no. 2 (Jan- Fev 1999), pp. 101–112.
• “La Traduction Infidèle,” Vacarme, No. 19 (1999).
• “Feminist Family Politics,” French Politics, Culture and Society 17:3-4 (Summer/Fall 1999) pp. 20–30.
• “The ‘Class’ We Have Lost,” International Labor & Working-Class History, no. 57 (Spring 2000) pp. 69-75.
• “Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity,” Critical Inquiry 27 (Winter 2001) pp. 284–304. (German translation: “Phantasie und Erfahrung,” Feministische Studien Vol. 2, 2001).
• “Les ‘guerres académiques’ aux Etats-Unis,” in L’Université en questions: marché des saviors, nouvelle agora, tour d’ivoire?, edited by Julie Allard, Guy Haarscher, and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (Brussels: Editions Labor, 2001).
• “Faculty Governance,” Academe July–August 2002, pp. 41–48.
• “French Universalism in the 90's,” differences 15.2 (2004) pp. 32–53.
• “Feminism’s History,” Journal of Women’s History 16.1 (2005), pp. 10–29.
• “Symptomatic Politics: The Banning of Islamic Head Scarves in French Public Schools,” French Politics, Culture and Society 23:3 (Fall 2005), pp. 106–27.
• “Against Eclecticism,” differences 16.3 (Fall 2005), pp. 114–37. “History-writing as Critique”, Keith Jenkins, et al., eds., Manifestos for History (London:Routledge, 2007), 19-38.
• “Back to the Future,” History and Theory 47:2 (2008) pp. 279–84.
• “Unanswered Questions,” contribution to AHR Forum, “ ”Revisiting ‘Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis’,” American Historical Review 113:5 (Dec. 2008), pp. 1422-30.
• “Finding Critical History,” in James Banner and John Gillis, eds. Becoming Historians (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), pp. 26–53.
• “Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom,” Social Research (Summer 2009).
• “Gender: Still a Useful Category of Analysis?” Diogenes Vol. 57, No. 225 (2010).
• “Storytelling,” History and Theory (Spring 2011).