This volume presents a comprehensive overview of gender archaeology, both theory and practice, and contributes a substantial and definitive reference work by bringing together state-of-the-art research, theoretical overviews, and the latest debates in the field.
Responding to the shifts in the theoretical landscape and the societal and political frameworks within which we produce our knowledge, chapters create both a solid theoretical baseline which help readers grasp the significance of gender in archaeology as well as offer perspectives on how to engender produced knowledge about the past. In line with recent focus on the shortcomings of gender and archaeological representation, chapters also detangle academic discourse and popular representations in order to present novel ways of successfully negotiating the pitfalls of gendered ideas about past behaviours. By encouraging novel ways of integrating theoretical perspectives with scrutiny of gender stereotypes, original empirical examinations of identity markers and behaviours, and re-examinations of static representations of identities through new lenses, such as intersectional perspectives, personhood, and materiality debates, the volume is theoretically rich and will simultaneously provide a necessary benchmark for future archaeological discourses. Finally, it will incorporate perspectives from researchers with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints to provide a truly comprehensive overview. It will not shy away from engaging with politically contentious issues surrounding knowledge production but will include perspectives from researchers whose focus is less on feminist critiques and more on gender and identities. Thus, the volume bridges the two most prominent directions currently discernible within the focus area, namely, feminist re-examinations on the one hand and research focused more on bodily practice and gendered experiences on the other.
The Routledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology is an invaluable resource for students and researchers in gender archaeology as well as gender studies more widely.
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of gender archaeology, both theory and practice, and contributes a substantial and definitive reference work by bringing together state of the art research, theoretical overviews and the latest debates in the field.
List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction:
Framing the archaeology of gender;
1. Framing gender in archaeology:
snapshots from a vast and varied field; Section 1: Introducing feminist
pedagogies, methodologies, and potentials;
2. Feminist archaeological
pedagogies;
3. Feminist archaeology for the present: Maintenance activities
and social caring;
4. Posthumanist-feminist archaeology: A becoming;
5. The
influence of women and feminist thinking on the development of an Emotional
Archaeology;
6. Intersectional thinking in archaeological analysis;
7.
Gendered technology and technology that genders; Section 2: Reviewing the
impacts of feminist thought;
8. Gender in the Middle Ages: Marginalisation
and mainstreaming in Later Medieval Archaeology;
9. The [ Matthew] Matilda
Effect in archaeology: Recovering women for the history of the discipline;
10. Uncloaking non-male agency in rock art production and use;
11. Gender,
gender perspectives and the division of labour in the European Middle and
Upper Palaeolithic;
12. Gender in the European Bronze Age: Rethinking the
universal binary in Northern Europe; Section 3: Marking identities and
personhood in life and death;
13. Intersections between gender, personhood
and kinship;
14. The construction, performance, and effects of gender:
Reflection on the evidence from prehistoric burials;
15. Broken bodies:
Gender, fragmentation, and social transformation in prehistoric Cyprus;
16.
Memory and temporality: A Viking Age example; Section 4: Addressing
marginalisation through feminist views;
17. Archaeological approaches to
gendered institutions: Tracing continuities in pre- and post-independence
Ireland;
18. From landscapes to kinscapes: Engendering Métis relations;
19.
Gender, intersectionality, and restitutive justice;
20. Indigenous futures in
archaeology; Section 5: Envisaging gendered lives;
21. Gender and the
archaeological sciences: Gender, mobility and kinship in European prehistory;
22. Caring for the house and the community: Womens agency in western Sicily,
8th5th century BC;
23. Imagining and gendering the past: Public Outreach as
a Research Method;
24. The archaeology of motherhood;
25. Other pasts:
Feminist archaeology, maintenance activities, and reconceptualization;
Section 6: Bodies, politics and feminist rethinkings;
26. The skeletal body
as archaeology: Osteological sex and gender archaeology;
27. Bodies past and
present: The political side of embodied approaches to Viking Age lives;
28.
Merely naturecultural: Notes on ontology of sex/gender in ancient Egypt; Index
Marianne Moen is Head of the Department of Archaeology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway.
Unn Pedersen is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway.
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