Gender in Archaeology - (Gender and Archaeology) 2nd Edition by Sarah Milledge Nelson (Paperback)

About the Book

This new edition of the first comprehensive feminist, theoretical synthesis of the archaeological work on gender reflects the extensive changes in the study of gender and archaeology over the past 8 years. New issues-such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist ...

Book Synopsis

This new edition of the first comprehensive feminist, theoretical synthesis of the archaeological work on gender reflects the extensive changes in the study of gender and archaeology over the past 8 years. New issues-such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist pedagogy-enrich this edition while the author updates work on the roles of women and men in such areas as human origins, the sexual division of labor, kinship and other social structures, state development, and ideology.

Review Quotes

One must applaud her efforts to redress wrongs in our own time, and to rebuild the past by peopling it with women as well as with men.

About the Author

Sarah Milledge Nelson is John Evans Professor of Archaeology at the University of Denver, where she is faculty in the Anthropology Department and Director of Asian Studies. Some recent books include The Archaeology of Korea (1993), The Archaeology of Northeast China (ed.)(1995), Gender in Archaeology(1997) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, and Ancient Queens: Archaeological Explorations (ed)(2003).