Engendering Archaeology Women and Prehistory

by Gero, Joan M.; Conkey, Margaret W.

• ISBN13: 9780631175018
• ISBN10: 0631175016
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-08-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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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