Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2004
The papers by Eileen Boris, Laura Frader, Laura Tabili, and Eric Weitz were presented at the 2000 meeting of the Social Science History Association. The panel was organized to reflect upon how and in what ways the “gender turn”—the move from feminist-inspired women's history to feminist-inspired gender history—has influenced labor and working-class history in different national contexts. The gender turn was, to a large extent, informed and motivated by a renewed and reinvigorated cultural history, which itself grew out of scholarship focused on language and discourse.