Representations of Gender From Prehistory To the Present

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Overview

Focusing primarily on visual forms of representation, but also including material on literary representation, this volume brings together studies as apparently disparate as the iconography of power in Mediterranean prehistory and clothing and cultural meaning in the First and Second World Wars. What draws these chapters together is the common focus on how the scholar of the twenty-first century can pursue the interpretation of past representational cultural production from a gendered perspective. The fruit of research by academics from the fields of archaeology, classics and ancient history, art history and social history, and from both sides of the Atlantic, this volume is a fascinating introduction to a developing field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312223977
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/28/2000
Series:	Studies in Gender and Material Culture
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Moira Donald is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter. Linda Hurcombe is Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

Introduction--Barbara Bender
• Part I: Engendering Images in Archaeology
• Archaeological Ms.conception: The Iconography of Power in Mediterranean Prehistory--Lauren Talalay
• Ungendering Archaeology: Concepts of Sex and Gender in Figurine Studies in Prehistory--Naomi Hamilton
• Gender Constructs in the Material Culture of Seventh-Century Anasazi Farmers in Northern Arizona--Kelley Hays-Gilpin
• Shaman Images in San Rock Art: A Question of Gender--Judith Stevenson
• Part II: Representing Gender in the Early Mediterranean World
• It's a Drag to Be King: Engendering Ambiguity in Minoan Crete--Louise Hitchcock
• Gender and Burial in Early Colonial Sicily: The Case of Morgantina--Clare Lyons
• Satyrs and Hetaerae: Looking for Gender on Greek Vases--Matthew Fox
• Food Preparation in Ancient Greece: Representations of Gender Roles in the Literary Evidence--John Wilkins
• Part III: Gendered Symbolism in History
• Glamour and Glory: The Symbolic Imagery of Women on Paper Money--Virginia Hewitt
• The Gendering of Artistic Labor in Mid-Victorian Britain--Tim Barringer
• Posters and Images of Women in the Great War--Helen Sims
• Part IV: Dress and Gender Identity in Modern History
• The Case of the Hidden Consumer: Men, Fashion and Luxury 1814-1870--Christopher Breward
• Dressed to Kill: Clothes, Cultural Meaning and World War I Women Munitions Workers--Angela Woollacott
• Women Under Austerity: Fashion in Britain during the 1940s--Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
• Index

Editorial Reviews

Focuses on how the scholar from the 21st century can pursue the interpretation of past representational cultural production from a gendered perspective, concentrating primarily on visual forms of representation but also including material on literary representation. Chapters are in sections on gender in archaeology, representing gender in the early Mediterranean world, gendered symbolism in history, and dress and gender identity in modern history. Contributors are from fields including archaeology, ancient history, and art history. Donald teaches history and Hurcombe teaches prehistory at the University of Exeter. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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