European Gender Archaeologies in Historical Perspective

Abstract

This study presents an overview of the development of gender archaeologies in local academies across Europe, from the initial efforts in Norway in the early 1970s, to the founding of the multinational Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) working group in 2009. In addition, the study seeks to show the scope of gender archaeology once contributions from different traditions in different languages are included, and to provide comparative historiographies for those European countries where gender archaeology is now a major strand of research. We hope that innovative approaches to the study of gender in the past will emerge in the future thanks to fruitful encounters between regional trends and developments.

Género, Identidade E Poder: Para Uma Leitura Crítica Das Relações De Género Em Arqueologia

“…tb. Claasen 1994;Dommasnes/ Montón-Subías 2012;Díaz-Andreu 2014). É bem sabido que as propostas teórico--metodológicas iniciais, com o seu programa de conferir visibilidade às mulheres no registo arqueológico e na prática disciplinar com abordagens de tipo cherchez la femme ou add women and stir (v. Dommasnes e Montón-Subías 2012: 369) foram progressivamente suplantadas por propostas mais ambiciosas que visavam a reconstrução da própria estrutura epistemológica disciplinar através do diagnóstico e correcção dos entraves estruturais ao reconhecimento do papel das mulheresmas não só -no passado e no presente disciplinar (Conkey e Spector 1984;Gero e Conkey 1991;Gilchrist 1991;Nelson, Nelson e Wylie 1994).…”

Metin I. Eren, ed. Hunter-Gatherer Behavior: Human Response during the Younger Dryas (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2012, 281pp., hbk, ISBN 978-1-59874-602-0)

“…The book is situated in the context of the growing interest that gender studies have experienced since the 1990s, both in Spain and in the rest of Europe (e.g. Dommasnes & Montón Subías, 2012). This fact is, of course, linked to the feminist movement, which has succeeded in introducing this new way of perceiving the world in the institutions and centres of knowledge production in general.…”