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Ungendering civilization /

Ungendering Civilization offers a much needed scrutiny of the role of women in the evolution of states. The contributors critically address traditional views of male and female roles; they argue for the possibility that the root historical cause of gender subordination is participation in modern wor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pyburn, K. Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Rethinking complex society / K. Anne Pyburn
  • Gendered states : gender and agency in economic models of Great Zimbabwe / Tracy Luedke
  • The use and abuse of ethnographic analogies in interpretations of gender systems at Cahokia / Laura Pate
  • The "marauding pagan warrior" woman / Lena Mortensen
  • Tracing women in early Sumer / Layla Al-Zubaidi
  • Leaders, healers, laborers, and lovers : reinterpreting women's roles in Moche society / Cristina Alcalde
  • The benefits of an archaeology of gender for predynastic Egypt / Gabriel D. Wrobel
  • All the Harappan men are naked, but the women are wearing jewelry / Candice Marie Lowe
  • Oh my goddess : a meditation on Minoan civilization / Sean P. Dougherty
  • Ungendering the Maya / K. Anne Pyburn.