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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. 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. 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. 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.

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Antoinette Burton is Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair Professor of history at the University of Illinois. She is the author of six books including Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India, and The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism. Kitty Hendrix is an Audie Award-nominated and AudioFile Award-winning actor who has narrated books since 2013 in nearly every genre. With an extensive background in professional theater, indie film, and musical performance on both the East and West coasts, she often finds herself performing books that promote personal empowerment. In fiction, with an array of accents and an expansive emotional range, she enjoys narrating dynamic and complex characters. In nonfiction she loves imparting concepts and principles in a clear, compelling, and relatable way. Kitty loves audiobook narration because she gets to apply her acting skills every day. Kitty lives in NYC with her writer husband and her Shiba Inu, Reiki.

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