Book description
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
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).
