Gender Studies

The study of the activities, the relative positions of autonomy and power, and the symbolic meanings of gender in the past.

ANAHITA
from Diotima, an electronic discussion list for the scholarly study of women and gender throughout the entire ancient Mediterranean world.

Diotima
You knew this was going to be here, right? The place to do research on gender studies in the ancient world.

Feminist Archaeology
Feminist archaeology is that branch of theoretical archaeology which places women at the center of the investigations

Images of Women in Ancient Art
Although it has an annoying habit of opening a string of windows in your browser, this site has a number of interesting pages, mostly by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe.

The Archaeology of Gender
From Kelley Hays-Gilpin and Susan C. Roberts, a bibliography of gender-related archaeology publications in English.

The Sexual Revolution
Jane Peterson's 2002 boo called "Sexual Revolutions: Gender and labor at the dawn of agriculture," is both an introduction to the Natufian, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Israel, Palestine, and Jordan, and to human skeletal studies and the effects of labor.

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