HISTORIOGRAPHY, FEMINISM AND MARXISM: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN JOAN W. SCOTT AND EDWARD P. THOMPSON AND ERIC HOBSBAWM

Abstract

The slow incorporation of the gender category since the 1960s involved a questioning of the great academic paradigms of social analysis. In this framework, the present work reflects the results of a historiographical investigation that addresses the theoretical production of the writer Joan Scott, of outstanding academic recognition in gender studies, both in the Social and Human Sciences in general and within Feminist History. He himself undertakes a bibliographic review of his career in contrast to that of the historians of British Marxism Edward Thompson and Eric Hobsbawm, whose debated works made such international recognition possible. With the technical-qualitative implementation of documentary observation, through a feminist historical approach, we intend to deepen the problem of the discussion about the category of gender in critical and intertextual debates, in addition to the trajectories of the English writers and the North American author.