Research Catalog

Title

Reader in gender archaeology / edited by Kelley Hays-Gilpin and David S. Whitley.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hays-Gilpin, Kelley, 1960-
• Whitley, David S.

Description

xiv, 383 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge readers in archaeology

Subject

• Social archaeology
• Women, Prehistoric
• Feminist archaeology
• Sex role > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : gendering the past -- Archaeology and the study of gender -- Women's archaeology? : political feminism, gender theory and historical revision -- The interplay of evidential constraints and political interests : recent archaeological research on gender -- Woman the gatherer : the role of women in early hominid evolution -- An axe to grind : more ripping yarns from Australian prehistory -- Brain evolution in females : an answer to Mr. Lovejoy -- Male/female task differentiation among the Hidatsa : toward the development of an archaeological approach to the study of gender -- Lithic technology and the hunter-gatherer sexual division of labor -- The development of horticulture in the eastern woodlands of North America : women's role -- Where have all the menstrual huts gone? : the invisibility of menstrual seclusion in the late prehistoric southeast -- Spinning and weaving as female gender identity in post-classic Mexico -- Identifying gender representation in the archaeological record : a contextual study -- The palaeolithic mother-goddess : fact or fiction? -- Women, rituals, and social dynamics at ancient Chalcatzingo -- Skeletal evidence for sex roles and gender hierarchies in prehistory -- Gender hierarchy and the queens of Silla --Women, kinship, and the basis of power in the Norwegian Viking age -- The ancient Californians : Rancholabrean hunters of the Mojave Lakes country -- What this awl means : feminist archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota village -- Boys will be boys : Masculinist approaches to a gendered archaeology.

Call Number

JFE 99-14327

ISBN

• 0415173590 (hbk.)
• 0415173604 (pbk.)

LCCN

97030383

OCLC

37443163

Title

Reader in gender archaeology / edited by Kelley Hays-Gilpin and David S. Whitley.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Series

Routledge readers in archaeology

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hays-Gilpin, Kelley, 1960-

Whitley, David S.

Research Call Number

JFE 99-14327