Women in antiquity : theoretical approaches to gender and archaeology / edited by Sarah Milledge Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Sarah M., 1931-2020.

Series:

Gender and archaeology series ; v. 11.

Gender and archaeology series ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist archaeology.

Women--History--To 500.

Women.

History.

Sex role--History.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

xi, 311 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : AltaMira Press, [2007]

Summary:

Archaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider the theoretical problems involved in discerning what the archaeological evidence tells us about gender roles in antiquity. The book includes chapters on the history of gender research, historical texts, mortuary analysis, household remains, hierarchy, and ethnoarchaeology, with each chapter teasing out the inherent difficulty in interpreting ancient evidence as well as the promise of new understanding. Women in Antiquity offers a fresh, accessible account of how we might grasp the ways in which sexual roles and identities shaped the past.

Contents:

Introduction / Sarah Millege Nelson

Methods in feminist and gender archaeology: a feeling for difference-and likeness / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel

Feminist theory and gender research in historical archaeology / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood

Gender, things, and material culture / Marie Louise Stig Sørenson

Gender and archaeological mortuary analysis / Bettina Arnold

The engendered household / Julia A. Hendon

Gender and landscapes / Wendy Ashmore

Gender, heterarchy, and hierarchy / Janet E. Levy

Gender and ethnoarchaeology / Kathryn Weedman

Feminist gender research in classical archaeology / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood

Index

About the contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780759110816

0759110816

9780759110823

0759110824

OCLC:

79001630