(CAPITOL CITY NOW) – Gender History: A Very Short Introduction is part of a series of Very Short Introduction books which now number more than seven hundred. Author Antoinette Burton cautions us:

“The argument of the book is that if we think of women’s history first, and then conversations about gender, and then civil rights, and then trans and LGBTQ,” she said, “we’re misapprehending, really, the last 50-60 years, because all those things are happening simultaneously.”

Among the related subjects: the wage gap between the sexes, differences in how many people graduate from college, and the debate over gender-neutral restrooms.