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Comment: Conceptualizing Gender in American Business History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

Joan W. Scott
Joan W. Scott
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JOAN W. SCOTT is professor at theInstitute for Advanced Study.
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Business history is not a field whose problematic I know, although these papers and one I read by Angel Kwolek-Folland, which was given here last spring, provide a helpful introduction. Instead, I come from exactly those fields, as the papers point out, that have been the traditional ones for thinking about women and gender: women's history and labor history. The challenge is to extend insights from those fields to business history.

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Special Section: Gender and Business
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Business History Review , Volume 72 , Issue 2: Gender and Business , Summer 1998 , pp. 242 - 249
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1998

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