Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis:
Analysis and Comparison
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In Joan W. ScottÆs ôGender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysisö, the author provides a new definition of and a new methodology for gender. This enables gender as a tool for historical analysis in ScottÆs opinion. The author discusses the oppression of womenÆs power through forbidding them to engage in politics, preventing wage earning for mothers, dictates on manner of dress, and others. Scott concludes by urging the application of this new concept of gender to politics and power.Thomas WinterÆs ôContested Spaces: The YMCA and Workingmen on the Railroads, 1877-1917ö reveals the tensions that existed within power relations of membership and locals on the national and local level. He demonstrates these tensions over power by case examples, like the membershipsÆ success in making locals support a pro-union position that disgruntled both national and local spon
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