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Power Relations, Control & Women

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 sponsors.

Nancy CottÆs ôMarriage and WomenÆs Citizenship in the United States, 1830-1934ö details the historical oppression of womenÆs citizenship (i.e. power). She documents legislation that shows womenÆs access to citizenship rights have been subject to male control and contracted through the act of marriage. She demonstrates how the state often uses citizenship and marriage in order to protect and advance its interests.

All three of these documents demonstrate how people with power exert influence over others, but Scott and Cott demonstrate that historically the people with power are male.

The elite in all societies controls the most power. The elite are generally the wealthy and government officials. Winter shows how the urban elite, through organizations like the YMCA, were able to reinforce the status quo of power and spread their values to the lower-classes. He argues such spaces were designed to reflect the values of reformers and philanthropists whose chief values were ôself-restraint, civic duty, a reverence for genteel c

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