– Contextualizes the way that the study of gender history has changed since the 1970’s
– Disputes mainstream interpretations of gender history as a field shaped by liberal narratives of progress
– Illuminates the Euro-American and modernist underpinnings of historical thinking about gender
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.
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