A Companion to Gender Prehistory - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0470655364 ISBN 13: 9780470655368

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2012

Riassunto

An authoritative guide on gender prehistory for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies

• Provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of gender archaeology, with an exclusive focus on prehistory
• Offers critical overviews of developments in the archaeology of gender over the last 30 years, as well as assessments of current trends and prospects for future research
• Focuses on recent Third Wave approaches to the study of gender in early human societies, challenging heterosexist biases, and investigating the interfaces between gender and status, age, cognition, social memory, performativity, the body, and sexuality
• Features numerous regional and thematic topics authored by established specialists in the field, with incisive coverage of gender research in prehistoric and protohistoric cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific

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Recensione:

This enormous book contains it all: past studies, current theory, everyone on gender. I can t wait to own a copy!
– Joan Gero, American University

The publication of A Companion to Gender Prehistory signals a new era in feminist and queer archaeology. With contributions from both established and emerging scholars throughout the world, this volume showcases the diversity and strengths of gender–focused archaeology in the study of the deep past. The authors stimulate our curiosity about the long history of gender and sexuality and chart new directions for emerging research.
– Barbara L. Voss, Stanford University

L'autore:

Diane Bolger is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In addition to her research on gender, she specializes in the ceramics of early agricultural societies in the ancient Near East, particularly in Cyprus, where she has been involved in fieldwork since the early 1980s. Her major publications on gender include three books: Gender in Ancient Cyprus (2003), Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus (2002), and Gender through Time in the Ancient Near East (2008).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0470655364
• ISBN 13: 9780470655368
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 672
• Redattore: Bolger Diane