ISBN:
0203501187
,
9780203501184
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 242 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Ungendering civilization
DDC:
305.4209
Keywords:
Women History
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To 500
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Sex role History
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To 1500
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Civilization, Ancient
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Comparative civilization
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Sex role History To 1500
;
Women History To 500
;
Comparative civilization
;
Civilization, Ancient
;
Women History To 500
;
Sex role History To 1500
;
Civilization, Ancient
;
Comparative civilization
;
Sex role
;
Women
;
Cultuurgeschiedenis
;
Vrouwen
;
Sekserol
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory
;
History
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
Introduction : Rethinking complex society / K. Anne Pyburn -- Gendered states : gender and agency in economic models of Great Zimbabwe / Tracy Luedke -- The use and abuse of ethnographic analogies in interpretations of gender systems at Cahokia / Laura Pate -- The "marauding pagan warrior" woman / Lena Mortensen -- Tracing women in early Sumer / Layla Al-Zubaidi -- Leaders, healers, laborers, and lovers : reinterpreting women's roles in Moche society / Cristina Alcalde -- The benefits of an archaeology of gender for predynastic Egypt / Gabriel D. Wrobel -- All the Harappan men are naked, but the women are wearing jewelry / Candice Marie Lowe -- Oh my goddess : a meditation on Minoan civilization / Sean P. Dougherty -- Ungendering the Maya / K. Anne Pyburn.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203501184
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https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781134509157
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