To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space

Autor(en)

Bisserka Gaydarska, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Paz Ramírez Valiente, Jana Esther Fries, Daniela Hofmann, Anne Augereau, John Chapman, Maria Mina, Eleonore Pape, Nicola Ialongo, Daniela Nordholz, Penny Bickle, Mark Haughton, John Robb, Oliver Harris

Abstrakt

This article is based on an EAA session in Kiel in 2021, in which thirteen contributors provide their response to Robb and Harris's () overview of studies of gender in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, with a reply by Robb and Harris. The central premise of their 2018 article was the opposition of ‘contextual Neolithic gender’ to ‘cross-contextual Bronze Age gender’, which created uneasiness among the four co-organizers of the Kiel meeting. Reading Robb and Harris's original article leaves the impression that there is an essentialist ‘Neolithic’ and ‘Bronze Age’ gender, the former being under-theorized, unclear, and unstable, the latter binary, unchangeable, and ideological. While Robb and Harris have clearly advanced the discussion on gender, the perspectives and case studies presented here, while critical of their views, take the debate further, painting a more complex and diverse picture that strives to avoid essentialism.

Organisation(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Durham University, University of Nottingham, Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Oldenburg, University of Bergen (UiB), INRAP - Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives, University of the Aegean, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, University of York, Aarhus University, University of Cambridge, University of Leicester, ArchaeNord, Unknown External Organisation Unbekannt/undefiniert

Journal

European Journal of Archaeology

Band

26

Seiten

271-298

Anzahl der Seiten

28

ISSN

1461-9571

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.51

Publikationsdatum

01-2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

601021 Urgeschichte

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Archaeology, Archaeology

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