ABSTRACT

Gender and Archaeology is the first volume to critically review the development of this now key topic internationally, across a range of periods and material culture. ^l Roberta Gilchrist explores the significance of the feminist epistemologies. She shows the unique perspective that gender archaeology can bring to bear on issues such as division of labour and the life course. She examines issues of sexuality, and the embodiment of sexual identity. A substantial case study of gender space and metaphor in the medieval English castle is used to draw together and illustrate these issues.

chapter |16 pages

Gender archaeology

Beyond the manifesto

chapter |14 pages

Strange bedfellows

Feminism and archaeology

chapter |23 pages

Gendered hierarchies?

Labour, ‘prestige' and production

chapter |25 pages

Experiencing gender

Identity, sexuality and the body

chapter |30 pages

Performing the past

Gendered time, space, and the lifecycle

chapter |37 pages

The contested garden

Gender, space and metaphor in the medieval English castle

chapter |4 pages

Coda

The borders of sex, gender and knowledge