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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450840903321

Titolo

Ungendering civilization / / edited by K. Anne Pyburn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

0-203-59890-3

1-134-50915-4

1-280-01942-5

0-203-50118-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PyburnK. Anne

Disciplina

305.42/09

Soggetti

Civilization, Ancient

Comparative civilization

Women - History - To 500

Sex role - History - To 1500

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: Rethinking complex society; Gendered states: Gender and agency in economic models of Great Zimbabwe; The use and abuse of ethnographic analogies in interpretations of gender systems at Cahokia; The ~marauding pagan warrior~ woman; Tracing women in early Sumer; Leaders, healers, laborers, and lovers: Reinterpreting women's roles in Moche society; The benefits of an archaeology of gender for predynastic Egypt; All the Harappan men are naked, but the women are wearing jewelry

Oh my goddess: A meditation on Minoan civilizationUngendering the Maya; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Ungendering Civilization offers a much needed scrutiny of the role of women in the evolution of states. The contributors critically address traditional views of male and female roles; they argue for the possibility that the root historical  cause of gender subordination is participation in modern world system,  rather than 'innate' tendencies to domesticity



and child-rearing in women, and leadership and aggression in men. Each of the nine papers examines a distinct body of archaeological data - from societies including Predynastic Egypt, Minoan Crete, ancient Zimbabwe and the Maya - to determi