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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100197587011

ISBN-139780197587010

eBay Product ID (ePID)22060727447

Product Key Features

Book TitleGender History : a Very Short Introduction

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicSociology / General, Gender Studies

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science

AuthorAntoinette Burton

Book SeriesVery Short Introductions Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight3.5 Oz

Item Length6.5 in

Item Width4.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-046866

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"This deceptively slim but astute volume's innumerable textual references and annotated bibliography challenge academic readers to engage in considerable reflection and further reading." -- F. J. Augustyn Jr., CHOICE, This deceptively slim but astute volume's innumerable textual references and annotated bibliography challenge academic readers to engage in considerable reflection and further reading.

Dewey Decimal305.309

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Gender history as a symptom of crisisChapter 1 What's in a name? The beginnings of gender history as a fieldChapter 2 Gender history takes offChapter 3 Intersectionality and the making of gender historyChapter 4 Before the modern, beyond the AmericasChapter 5 Queering the subjectConclusion: Toward the futures of gender history ReferencesFurther readingIndex

SynopsisAntoinette 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 times and places since the 1970s.Inevitably political, gender history has taken aim at the broader field of historical narrative by asking who counts as a historical subject, what difference gender makes, and how attention to it subverts reigning assumptions of what power, culture, economics, and identity have been in the past--and what they are today. The book explores how gender analysis has changed interpretations of the histories of slavery, capitalism, migration, and empire. As a field, gender history has been extraordinarily influential in shaping several generations of scholars and students. The fact that its early emphasis on the relationship between masculinity and femininity was part of a larger set of challenges to universal history by poststructuralism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism positions it at the heart of some of the most fractious intellectual debates of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. And, as part of the movement toward gender equality that is key to modern western progress, gender history has been caught up in the culture wars that continue to shape post-global society. What is intriguing and ultimately defining about gender history is the way that the centrality of gender, so important for revealing how identity is structured in and through regimes of power, has been unable to hold its own over the half century of the field's own history. The practice of gender history has always run up against the forces of race, class, and sexuality that challenge the singularity of gender itself as an explanatory category of historical analysis. That powerful, unruly tension is at the heart of this Very Short Introduction., This introduction to the field of gender history 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 times and places in scholarship since the 1970s. Inevitably political, gender history has taken aim at the broader field of historical narrative by asking who counts as a historical subject and how paying attention to gender subverts reigning assumptions of what power, culture, economics, and identity have been in the past-and what they are today. Antoinette Burton explores how gender analysis has changed interpretations of the histories of slavery, capitalism, migration, and empire., This introduction to the field of gender history 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 times and places in scholarship since the 1970s.Inevitably political, gender history has taken aim at the broader field of historical narrative by asking who counts as a historical subject and how paying attention to gender subverts reigning assumptions of what power, culture, economics, and identity have been in the past--and what they are today. Antoinette Burton explores how gender analysis has changed interpretations of the histories of slavery, capitalism, migration, and empire.

LC Classification NumberHQ1075.B876 2024