Bickle, Penny orcid.org/0000-0003-2482-0268 and Cintas-Pena, Marta (2024) Gender and Social Inequality. In: Matic, Uros, Gaydarska, Bisserka, Coltofean, Laura and Diaz-Guardamino, Marta, (eds.) Gender trouble and current archaeological debates. Themes in Contemporary Archaeology . Springer Nature Switzerland , Cham, Switzerland , pp. 73-86.
Abstract
This chapter provides a critical overview of archaeological approaches to gender and social inequality, and suggests future perspectives and approaches. We argue that considering gender as a central framework through which to analyse past social inequality is long overdue in archaeology. Surprisingly, even under Processualism, which focused on the origins and development of social inequality, the issues of gender inequality were rarely raised. Today, in spite of the fact that feminist and gender perspectives have repeatedly demonstrated the significance of gender for the construction of social differences and identities in the past, we identify a continuation of earlier approaches. Much work remains to be done by archaeologists, both addressing gender inequality and placing it within the social context of change in different periods. We identify positive steps in this direction, and propose that multi-proxy approaches are a promising way to address these complex questions and bring social inequality into focus.
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Keywords: | Gender,Inequality,Archaeology,Ethnography,Diversity |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Archaeology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2024 10:50 |
Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 10:50 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68157-8 |
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Publisher: | Springer Nature Switzerland |
Series Name: | Themes in Contemporary Archaeology |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-031-68157-8 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:219117 |
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