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Record Nr.

UNINA9910252727703321

Autore

Geller Pamela L

Titolo

The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives : Queering Common Sense About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality / / by Pamela L. Geller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-40995-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 232 p. 12 illus., 6 illus. in color.)

Collana

Bioarchaeology and Social Theory, , 2567-6776

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Archaeology

Anthropology

Sex (Psychology)

Gender expression

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Corpus -- Chapter 3: Common Sense and Queer Matter -- Chapter 4: "Grave News, Romance is Dead" -- Chapter 5: Labor Codes -- Chapter 6: "She Gives Birth" -- Chapter 7: Brave Old World. .

Sommario/riassunto

This volume uses bioarchaeological remains to examine the complexities and diversity of past socio-sexual lives. This book does not begin with the presumption that certain aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality are universal and longstanding. Rather, the case studies within—extend from Neolithic Europe to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to the nineteenth-century United States— highlight the importance of culturally and historically contextualizing socio-sexual beliefs and practices. The Bioarachaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives highlights a major shortcoming in many scholarly and popular presentations of past socio-sexual lives. They reveal little about the ancient or historic group under study and much about Western society’s modern state of heteronormative affairs. To interrogate commonsensical thinking about socio-sexual identities and interactions, this volume draws from critical feminist and queer studies. Reciprocally, bioarchaeological studies



extend social theorizing about sex, gender, and sexuality that emphasizes the modern, conceptual, and discursive. Ultimately,The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives invites readers to think more deeply about humanity’s diversity, the naturalization of culture, and the past’s presentation in mass-media communications.