In the article “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” by Joan W. Scott, explains the history of the term gender. She explains that the term first appeared for Americans who were feminists that wanted a term that would be a “rejection of the biological \u00a0determinism” that is implicated with the term “sex”. (pg. 1054) She also focuses on the establishment of women’s studies because with the inclusion of women into history, it redefined historical significance, by created a new history, which \u00a0includes the account for women’s experiences. cluna3<\/a> connects gender to marxism by saying that there is a historic approach that Marxist feminists take to define feminism. She connects feminism with Marxism because they “believe class structure has a role in gender”. This does make sense because females for a duration of time and even now, in some cases, were seen as property with no social standing. Joan W. Scott also explains that theories of patriarchy have been directed at the “male ‘need’ to dominate the female” (pg. 1058). \u00a0She also explains that with Marxism, if women expressed their shared experience of being objectified, that women would \u00a0come to understand their identity and move forward with political action. Scott points out that theorist of patriarchy, while addressing inequality among males and female, that it does not “show how gender inequality affects areas of life that are not connected” (pg. 1059). Scott then discusses a theory known as the object-realations theory. This theory she says though “limits the concept of gender to family and household experience” which is difficult for historians because they cannot the concept or individual that is being focused on with using this theory to other social systems (pg. 1063).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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