Gender History: A Very Short Introduction

by Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair Professor of History Antoinette Burton and Antoinette Burton

Book Overview

Antoinette Burton argues that gender history is hiding in plain sight, at work everywhere we look.

This volume introduces the field of gender history--its origins, development, reception, recalibrations, and frictions. It offers a set of working definitions of gender as a descriptive category and as a category of historical analysis, tracing the emergence, usage, and applicability of these entwined subjects across a range of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197587011
• ISBN13: 9780197587010
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 6.5"