Representations of Gender from Prehistory to the Present

by Donald, Moira; Hurcombe, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780312223977
• ISBN10: 0312223978
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Focusing primarily on visual forms of representation, but also including material on literary representation, this volume brings together studies as apparently disparate as the iconography of power in Mediterranean prehistory and clothing and cultural meaning in the First and Second World Wars. What draws these papers together is the common focus on how the scholar of the twenty-first century can pursue the interpretation of past representational cultural production from a gendered perspective. The fruit of research by academics from the fields of archaeology, classics and ancient history, art history and social history, and from both sides of the Atlantic, make this volume a fascinating introduction to a developing field.

Author Biography

Moira Donald is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter. Linda Hurcombe is Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Notes on the Contributors	xiv
Introduction	xix
Barbara Bender
Part I Engendering Images an Archaeology
Archaeological Ms.conceptions: Contemplating Gender and the Greek Neolithic	3	(14)
Lauren E. Talalay
Ungendering Archaeology: Concepts of Sex and Gender in Figurine Studies in Prehistory	17	(14)
Naomi Hamilton
Gender Constructs in the Material Culture of Seventh-century Anasazi Farmers in North-eastern Arizona	31	(14)
Kelley Hays-Gilpin
Shaman Images in San Rock Art: A Question of Gender	45	(24)
Judith Stevenson
Part II Representing Gender in the Early Mediterranean World
Engendering Ambiguity in Minoan Crete: It's a Drag to be a King	69	(18)
Louise A. Hitchcock
Gender and Burial in Early Colonial Sicily: The Case of Morgantina	87	(17)
Clare L. Lyons
Satyrs and Hetaerae: Looking for Gender on Greek Vases	104	(14)
Matthew Fox
Food Preparation in Ancient Greece: Representations of Gender Roles in the Literary Evidence	118	(19)
John Wilkins
Part III Gendered Symbolism in History
Glamour and Glory: The Symbolic Imagery of Women on Paper Money	137	(16)
Virginia Hewitt
The Gendering of Artistic Labour in Mid-Victorian Britain	153	(15)
Tim Barringer
Posters and Images of Women in the Great War	168	(15)
Helen Sims
Part IV Dress and Gender Identity in Modern History
The Case of the Hidden Consumer: Men, Fashion and Luxury, 1870--1914	183	(15)
Christopher Breward
Dressed to Kill: Clothes, Cultural Meaning and First World War Munitions Workers	198	(20)
Angela Woollacott
Women under Austerity: Fashion in Britain during the 1940s	218	(20)
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
Index	238