Gender and the Politics of History or Management in Two Cultures

Gender and the Politics of History

Author: Joan Wallach Scott

Winner, in the original edition, of the 1989 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association, this landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a trenchant critique of women's history and gender inequality. Exploring topics ranging from language and gender to the politics of work and family, Gender and the Politics of History is a crucial interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis.

The revised edition -- in addition to providing a new generation of readers with access to a classic text in feminist theory and history -- reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In provocatively arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book.

Voice Literary Supplement

A tour de force -[the essays] reveal historical imagination relentlessly moving forward...as sophisticated advocacy for the case of theory, and illumination of the state of the art of women's history, there is nothing better than Gender and the Politics of History.

New Republic

Scott has given us an intelligent, sensitive reflection on the nature of events, of thought, of judgement, of history....The questions Scott asks deserve pursuit. They will enlarge the scope of historical understanding and spawn new questions to be asked in turn.

New York Times

A real tour de force.

Table of Contents:

I. Toward a Feminist History
II. Gender and Class
III. Gender in History
IV. Equality and Difference

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Management in Two Cultures: Bridging the Gap between U. S. and Mexican Managers

Author: Eva S Kras

Much has been written on the economic dimensions of U.S.-Mexican business relations but little on the more subtle and sensitive cultural issues involved. In this revised edition of her popular book, Eva Kras has provided us with an update in which she confronts the problems that arise out of the cultural differences between U.S. and Mexican managers. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 1989, the Maquiladoras have increased in number, the NAFTA agreement was ratified, and business practices have changed and evolved in response. Kras has expanded her analysis of these developments and their meaning for interaction between U.S. and Mexican managers. She thus offers the reader a sharper image and a more penetrating analysis of her subject in light of these developments.
This practical handbook is based on extensive interviews with Mexican and U.S. managers. Kras compares the critical areas of a managerial setting in which the values and behaviors of the two cultures differ and offers specific recommendations on how to ameliorate the disparities between them. Kras is a cross-cultural management consultant to Mexican and U.S. businesses.