Archaeologies of Sexuality

by Schmidt,Robert A.

• ISBN13: 9780415223652
• ISBN10: 0415223652
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Status, age and gender have long been accepted aspects of archaeological enquiry, yet it is only recently that archaeologists have started seriously to consider the role of sex and sexuality in their studies. Archaeologies of Sexualityis a timely and pioneering work. It presents a strong, diverse body of scholarship which draws on locations as varied as medieval England, the ancient Maya kingdoms, New Kingdom Egypt, prehistoric Europe, and convict-era Australia, demonstrating the challenges and rewards of integrating the study of sex and sexuality within archaeology. This volume, with contributions by many leading archaeologists, will serve both as an essential introduction and a valuable reference tool for students and academics.

Table of Contents

List of figures	x
List of tables	xii
List of contributors	xiii
Acknowledgements	xv
Archaeologies of Sexuality: An Introduction	1	(34)
Barbara L. Voss
Robert A. Schmidt
I - WHERE IT HAPPENS: STRUCTURED SPACE AND SEX
Colonial Sex: Archaeology, Structured Space, and Sexuality in Alta California's Spanish-Colonial Missions	35	(27)
Barbara L. Voss
Sites, Settlements, and Urban Sex: Archaeology and the Study of Gay Leathermen in San Francisco, 1955--1995	62	(27)
Gayle Rubin
Unsexing the Body: The Interior Sexuality of Medieval Religious Women	89	(15)
Roberta Gilchrist
The Site of Sexuality: William Beckford's Fonthill Abbey, 1780-1824	104	(13)
Whitney Davis
II - THE STUFF OF SEX: MATERIAL CULTURE AND SEXUALITY
Mary Ann Hall's First-Class House: The Archaeology of a Capital Brothel	117	(12)
Donna J. Seifert
Elizabeth Barthold O'Brien
Joseph Balicki
Magical Passions: Sexuality and African-American Archaeology	129	(14)
Laurie A. Wilkie
Bulldaggers and Gentle Ladies: Archaeological Approaches to Female Homosexuality in Convict-Era Australia	143	(17)
Eleanor Conlin Casella
Red Light Voices: An Archaelogical Drama of Late Nineteenth-Century Prostitution	160	(19)
Julia G. Costello
III - SEXUAL IDENTITIES, SEXUAL POLITICS
Archaeology of the 'AQI: Gender and Sexuality in Prehistoric Chumash Society	179	(18)
Sandra E. Hollimon
Searching for Third Genders: Towards a Prehistory of Domestic Space in Middle Missouri Villages	197	(23)
Elizabeth Prine
Shamans and Northern Cosmology: The Direct Historical Approach to Mesolithic Sexuality	220	(16)
Robert A. Schmidt
Constructing Utopian Sexualities: The Archaeology and Architecture of the Early Soviet State	236	(17)
Victor Buchli
IV - THE SEXUAL GAZE: REPRESENTATION AND IMAGERY
Re-Em(Bed)Ding Sex: Domesticity, Sexuality, and Ritual in New Kingdom Egypt	253	(10)
Lynn Meskell
A Precolumbian Gaze: Male Sexuality Among the Ancient Maya	263	(24)
Rosemary A. Joyce
Conclusion
Meanwhile, Back at the Village: Debating the Archaeologies of Sexuality	287	(8)
Margaret W. Conkey
Index	295