
Patricia Tsurumi is professor emerita of Japanese history and adjunct professor of women's studies at the University of Victoria.

He is codirector of a World Wide Web site, "Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930,". He currently is at work on a study of gender and de-industrialization in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania in the twentieth century. Thomas Dublin is professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her current research is on late medieval London women. She also has published numerous articles and edited a number of books.

Her books include The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (1986), Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History (1993), and "Of Good and Ill Repute": Gender and Social Control in Medieval England (1998). Hanawalt is King George III Professor of British History at the Ohio State University. examinations!) The retrospective concludes with a comment by Louise Tilly.-Leila J. (We at Ohio State University, I might add, have also asked our graduate students to tackle this question for their Ph.D. history, and Patricia Tsurumi from the angle of Japanese history to take up this task. To that end, we asked Barbara Hanawalt from the perspective of medieval European history, Thomas Dublin from the vantage point of U.S.

We thought it would be interesting to consider how the model that Tilly and Scott develop in the book has held up in light of over two decades of subsequent scholarship. Scott's Women, Work, and Family, published in 1978. TillyĪs part of our ongoing consideration of the past, present, and future of women's history, we offer a retrospective on a classic work in the field, Louise A. Women, Work, and Family after Two Decades Barbara A. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
