Engendering Archaeology Women and Prehistory
by Gero, Joan M.; Conkey, Margaret W.Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 1991-08-26
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This pathbreaking book brings gender issues to archaeology for the first time, in an explicit and theoretically informed way. In it, leading archaeologists from around the world contribute original analyses of prehistoric data to discover how gender systems operated in the past.
Author Biography
Joan M. Gero is Assistant Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. She has previously edited The Sociopolitics of Archaeology.
Margaret W. Conkey is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Californis, at Berkeley.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Considerations for an Archaeology of Gender: | |
| Tensions, Pluralities, and Engendering Archaeology: An Introduction to Women and Prehistory | |
| Gender Theory and the Archaeological Record: Why is There No Archaeology of Gender? | |
| Space and Gender Relations: | |
| Contexts of Action, Contexts for Power: Material Culture and Gender in the Magdalenian | |
| Households with Faces: The Challenge of Gender in Prehistoric Architectural Remains | |
| Gender, Space and Food in Prehistory | |
| Material Aspects of Gender Production: | |
| Genderlithics: Women's Role in Stone Tool Production | |
| Women's Labor and Pottery Production in Prehistory | |
| Weaving and Cooking: Women's Production in Aztec Mexico | |
| Gender and Food Systems: | |
| The Development of Horticulture in the Eastern Woodlands of North America: Women's Role | |
| Shellfishing and the Shell Mound Archaic | |
| Pounding Acorn: Women's Production as Social and Economic Focus: Thomas Jackson (Biosystems Analysis, Inc.) | |
| Images of Gender: | |
| Whose Art was Found at Lepenski Vir? Gender Relations and Power in Prehistory | |
| Women in a Men's World: Images of Sumerian Women | |
| What this All Means: Towards a Feminist Archaeology | |
| Epilogue | |
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