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Engendering archaeology : women and prehistory / edited by Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Social archaeologyPublication details: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1991.Description: xiii, 418 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0631165053
  • 0631175016 (pbk)
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Contents:
Tensions, pluralities, and engendering archaeology : an introduction to women and prehistory / Margaret W. Conkey and Joan M. Gero -- Gender theory and the archaeological record : why is there no archaeology of gender? / Alison Wylie -- Contexts of action, contexts for power : material culture and gender in the Magdalenian / Margaret W. Conkey -- Households with faces : the challenge of gender in prehistoric architectural remains / Ruth E. Tringham -- Gender, space, and food in prehistory / Christine A. Hastorf -- Genderlithics : women's roles in stone tool production / Joan M. Gero -- Women's labor and pottery production in prehistory / Rita P. Wright -- Weaving and cooking : women's production in Aztec Mexico / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel -- Development of horticulture in the Eastern Woodlands of North America : women's role / Patty Jo Watson and Mary C. Kennedy -- Gender shellfishing, and the shell mound archaic / Cheryl P. Claassen -- Pounding acorn : women's production as social and economic focus / Thomas L. Jackson.
Whose art was found at Lepenski Vir? Gender relations and power in archaeology / Russell G. Handsman -- Women in a men's world : images of Sumerian women / Susan Pollock -- What this awl means : toward a feminist archaeology / Janet D. Spector.
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Based on papers originally presented at a conference held at Wedge Plantation, Georgetown, S.C., Apr. 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tensions, pluralities, and engendering archaeology : an introduction to women and prehistory / Margaret W. Conkey and Joan M. Gero -- Gender theory and the archaeological record : why is there no archaeology of gender? / Alison Wylie -- Contexts of action, contexts for power : material culture and gender in the Magdalenian / Margaret W. Conkey -- Households with faces : the challenge of gender in prehistoric architectural remains / Ruth E. Tringham -- Gender, space, and food in prehistory / Christine A. Hastorf -- Genderlithics : women's roles in stone tool production / Joan M. Gero -- Women's labor and pottery production in prehistory / Rita P. Wright -- Weaving and cooking : women's production in Aztec Mexico / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel -- Development of horticulture in the Eastern Woodlands of North America : women's role / Patty Jo Watson and Mary C. Kennedy -- Gender shellfishing, and the shell mound archaic / Cheryl P. Claassen -- Pounding acorn : women's production as social and economic focus / Thomas L. Jackson.

Whose art was found at Lepenski Vir? Gender relations and power in archaeology / Russell G. Handsman -- Women in a men's world : images of Sumerian women / Susan Pollock -- What this awl means : toward a feminist archaeology / Janet D. Spector.

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