Gender: A Useful Category of Historical AnalysisAuthor(s): Joan W. ScottReviewed work(s):Source: The American Historical Review, Vol. 91, No. 5 (Dec., 1986), pp. 1053-1075Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the American Historical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1864376 .Accessed: 20/02/2012 16:21

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