If you’re looking for an exemplary book introduction, I suggest Kristina Wilson’s Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design. Impeccably organized + states the book’s arguments & interventions so clearly. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
(I’ve had nothing to do with this book. I just bought it for my own pleasure reading and happened to really appreciate the intro as a developmental editor)
The summary of chapters toward the end is a particularly wonderful model to follow, if you’re trying to figure out how to do this for your own intro chapter or your book proposal. Wilson tells us what each chapter’s argument is and the archive of evidence from which it’s built…
… without getting too far into the weeds of actual analysis or giving away the specific findings. I know that I’m interested in the chapter and that it serves the books overarching these, but I’m still eager to read the chapter and learn more
That last tweet shd say “book’s overarching thesis” oops
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