Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory

Joan M. Gero, Margaret W. Conkey

Wiley, Aug 26, 1991 - Social Science - 436 pages

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory; Social Archaeology
• Editors: Joan M. Gero, Margaret W. Conkey
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Wiley, 1991
• ISBN: 0631175016, 9780631175018
• Length: 436 pages
• Subjects: History / General; Social Science / Archaeology