Ungendering civilization / edited by K. Anne Pyburn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pyburn, K. Anne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Ancient.

Comparative civilization.

Women--History--To 500.

Women.

Sex role--History--To 1500.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ungendering Civilization offers a much needed scrutiny of the role of women in the evolution of states. The contributors critically address traditional views of male and female roles; they argue for the possibility that the root historical cause of gender subordination is participation in modern world system, rather than 'innate' tendencies to domesticity and child-rearing in women, and leadership and aggression in men. Each of the nine papers examines a distinct body of archaeological data - from societies including Predynastic Egypt, Minoan Crete, ancient Zimbabwe and the Maya - to determi

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: Rethinking complex society; Gendered states: Gender and agency in economic models of Great Zimbabwe; The use and abuse of ethnographic analogies in interpretations of gender systems at Cahokia; The ~marauding pagan warrior~ woman; Tracing women in early Sumer; Leaders, healers, laborers, and lovers: Reinterpreting women's roles in Moche society; The benefits of an archaeology of gender for predynastic Egypt; All the Harappan men are naked, but the women are wearing jewelry

Oh my goddess: A meditation on Minoan civilizationUngendering the Maya; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-50914-6

0-203-59890-3

1-134-50915-4

1-280-01942-5

0-203-50118-7

9780203501184

OCLC:

299570282