Excavating Women

A History of Women in European Archaeology
Herausgeber: Díaz-Andreu, Magarita; Stig Sorensen, Marie Louise

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Excavating Women discusses the careers of women archaeologists, who against all odds became famous, as well as the many lesser-known personalities who did important archaeological work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780415518932
• ISBN-10: 0415518938
• Artikelnr.: 35054400

Autorenporträt

Margarita Díaz-Andreu lectures in the Department of Archaeology, at the University of Durham. Her research focuses on gender and ethnicity, nationalism and archaeology, and prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula. Marie Louise Stig Sørensen is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests lie particularly in the field of gender archaeology, both theoretical and based on data, as well as heritage, theory and European prehistory.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Excavating women: towards an engendered history of archaeology
Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
SECTION I. GENERAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY
2. Rescue and recovery: on historiographies of female archeologists
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
3. Archaeology of French women and French women in Archaeology
Anick Coudart
4. Gender Politics in Polish archaeology
Liliana Janik and Hanna Zawadzka
5. Women archaeologists in retrospect: the Norwegian case
Liv Helga Dommasnes
Else Johnsen Kleppe
Gro Mandt and Jenny-Rita Naess
6. Spanish women in a changing world. Strategies in the search for self-fulfilment through antiquities
Margarita Díaz-Andreu
7. When the wall came down: East German women employed in archaeology before and after 1989
Ruth Struwe
SECTION II. HISTORY THROUGH THE INDIVIDUAL
8. Archaeology
gender and emancipation: the paradox of Hanna Rydh
Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh
9. Women in British Archaeology: visible and invisible
Sara Champion
10. Fieldwork is not the proper preserve of a lady: the first women archaeologists in Crete
Marina Picazo
11. The state of Denmark. Lis Jacobsen and other women in and around archaeology
Lise Bender Jorgensen
12. Greek women in archaeology: an untold story
Marianna Nikolaidou and Dimitra Kokkinidou
13. From pictures to stories: traces of female PhD graduates from the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology
University of Tubingen
Germany
Sibylle Kastner
Viola Maier and Almut Schulke
14. The impact of modern invasions and migrations on archaeological explanation: a biographical sketch of Marija Gimbutas
John Chapman.