A Companion to Gender Prehistory

This large and impressive volume serves both as an overview of gender prehistory as it stands today, and as a stimulating reminder of the importance of gendered perspectives in archaeological research and a rejoinder to those who would still put forward essentialist and binary views of gender and [...]
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This large and impressive volume serves both as an overview of gender prehistory as it stands today, and as a stimulating reminder of the importance of gendered perspectives in archaeological research and a rejoinder to those who would still put forward essentialist and binary views of gender and sexuality in the past. A wealth of chapters survey the genesis of feminist and gendered research in archaeology, review the theoretical background and explore fruitful areas for fruitful research, as well as providing up to date perspectives on gender and material culture, body and identity. The book is rounded off with a global survey, region by region of the application of gendered perspctives in archaeology.