Gender History: A Very Short Introduction

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 times and places since the 1970s.

Inevitably political, gender histor...