A Companion to Gender Prehistory

An authoritative advisor on gender prehistory for researchers, teachers and scholars in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies

  • Provides the main up to date, entire assurance of gender archaeology, with an specific specialize in prehistory
  • Offers serious overviews of advancements  within the archaeology of gender over the past 30 years, in addition to checks of present tendencies and clients for destiny research
  • Focuses on fresh 3rd Wave ways to the learn of gender in early human societies, demanding heterosexist biases, and  investigating the interfaces among gender and  prestige, age,  cognition, social reminiscence, performativity, the physique, and sexuality
  • Features various neighborhood and thematic subject matters authored through proven experts within the field,   with incisive insurance of gender examine in prehistoric and protohistoric cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific

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