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Women in Archaeology
Cheryl Claassen
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Description for Women in Archaeology
Paperback. The fourteen essays in this collection explore the place of women in archaeology in the twentieth century, arguing that they have largely been excluded from "an essentially all-male establishment." Editor(s): Claassen, Cheryl. Num Pages: 264 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: HD; JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
Women in Archaeology documents and discusses attempts to exclude women from the discipline of archaeology and the resulting androcentrism of archaeological knowledge.
Women in Archaeology documents and discusses attempts to exclude women from the discipline of archaeology and the resulting androcentrism of archaeological knowledge.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812215090
SKU
V9780812215090
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About Cheryl Claassen
Contributors include: M. A. Levine (Career styles among women in Americanist archaeology between the Wars); D. L. Bolger (Harriet Boyd Hawes and Edith Hall at work in Mediterranean archaeology); R. A. Joyce (Dorothy Hughes Popenoe); R. W. Preucel and M. S. Chesson (Three early women archaeologists at Tecolote, New Mexico); S. J. Bender (Marian E. White: Pioneer in New York ... Read more
Reviews for Women in Archaeology
"Slowly the record is being set straight. Here is a fine collection of essays that help fill the gender gap in the history of archaeological practice."
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"This volume represents an important contribution to the growing literature about the relationships between gender and the theory and practice of archaeology. . . . Claassen has moved well beyond a ... Read more
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"This volume represents an important contribution to the growing literature about the relationships between gender and the theory and practice of archaeology. . . . Claassen has moved well beyond a ... Read more