Abstract
"This article, revised and included in Scott's Gender and the Politics of History (1988), attempts to establish a connection between language and gender. Scott breaks down the dominant class/race/gender matrix in labor history by refocusing attention on the complex way in which working men and women interpreted and participated in events and "the conceptual language that constitutes those interactions." The family, in particular, deserves study because it was created within working‑class political discourse and "is integral to the process by which language constructs social meaning." See especially Christine Stansell's response following. (Abstract via Allan Megill)