Representations of Gender from Prehistory to the Present
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hardcover. Series: Studies in gender & material culture. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: YQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Series
Studies in gender & material culture
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312223977
SKU
V9780312223977
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About Na Na
Moira Donald is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter. Linda Hurcombe is Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Exeter.
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