Gender history : a very short introduction / Antoinette Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Antoinette M., 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--History.

Sex role.

Sex discrimination--History.

Sex discrimination.

Feminism--History.

Feminism.

Gender identity--History.

Gender identity.

Other Title:

Gender History: A Very Short Introduction

Gender History

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press Oxford

Summary:

"This volume is designed to introduce readers to the scholarly 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 in the scholarship of the last five decades. Inevitably political, gender history has taken aim at the broader field of historical narrative by asking who counts as a historical subject and what difference gender difference makes. The book explores gender history as a practice of subverts reigning assumptions of what power, culture, economics, and identity have been in the past - with ramifications, of course, for what they are today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Gender history in context

Some origins of gender history as a field

Gender history takes off

Intersectionality and the making of gender history

Before the modern, beyond the Americas

Queering the subject

Conclusion: Toward the futures of gender history.

ISBN:

9780197587041

0197587046