This pathbreaking book brings gender issues to archaeology for the first time, in an explicit and theoretically informed way. In it, leading archaeologists from around the world contribute original analyses of prehistoric data to discover how gender systems operated in the past.
About the Author
Joan M. Gero is Assistant Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. She has previously edited The Sociopolitics of Archaeology.
Margaret W. Conkey is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Californis, at Berkeley.
Features
* First book bringing current feminist scholarship to prehistoric studies. * Illuminates the central importance of gender to the organization of social life in prehistory, and of gender as an historical process. * Reveals the important yet previously neglected part that women played in creating the archaeological record and advances a controversial thesis - that women rather than men are responsible for the majority of it.
