Gender and Material Culture

Moira Donald, Linda M. Hurcombe (Autoren)

Media-Kombination

1996
Palgrave Macmillan
978-0-333-64322-8 (ISBN)

Autor

MOIRA DONALD is Senior Lecturer in history at the University of Exeter. She has published on the history of the European socialist movement and on women's history in Britain and Russia. She is currently writing a book on the culture and material culture of the socialist movement as well as editing works on twentieth century revolutions and women, trade and business in history. Her work on gender and material culture has focused on gendered possession of clocks, watches, on which she has included a paper in the present volume. LINDA HURCOMBE is Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Exeter. Her research interests focus on stone tools from a variety of contexts and periods but expand to general issues of archaeological material culture and its interpretation. She has published both in these fields and in the perceptions of gender issues within the discipline and is currently preparing a book on the transformation of materials into material culture.

Inhalt

Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations PART ONE: ENGENDERING IMAGES IN ARCHAEOLOGY Archaeology Ms.conceptions: The Iconography of Power in Mediterranean Prehistory; L.Talalay Ungendering Archaeology: Concepts of Sex and Gender in Figurine Studies in Prehistory; N.Hamilton Gender Constructs in the Material Culture of Seventh Century Anasazi Farmers in North-Eastern Arizona; K.Hays-Gilpin Shaman Images in San Rock Art: A Question of Gender; J.Stevenson PART TWO: REPRESENTING GENDER IN THE EARLY MEDITERRANEAN WORLD It's a Drag to be King: Engendering Ambiguity in Minoan Crete; L.Hitchcock Gender and Burial in Early Colonial Sicily: The Case of Morgantina; C.Lyons Satyrs and Hetaerae: Looking for Gender on Greek Vases; M.Fox Food Preparation in Ancient Greece - Representations of Gender Roles in the Literary Evidence; J.Wilkins PART THREE: GENDERED SYMBOLISM IN HISTORY Glamour and Glory: The Symbolic Imagery of Women on Paper Money; V.Hewitt The Gendering of Artistic Labour in mid-Victorian Britain; T.Barringer Posters and Images of Women in the Great War; H.Sims PART FOUR: DRESS AND GENDER IDENTITY IN MODERN HISTORY The Case of the Hidden Consumer: Men, Fashion and Luxury 1870-1914; C.Breward Dressed to Kill: Clothes, Cultural Meaning and World War I Women Munitions Workers; A.Woollacott Women under Austerity: Fashion in Britain During the 1940s; I.Zweiniger-Bargielowska Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.1996
• Zusatzinfo: Illustrations, ports.
• Verlagsort: Basingstoke
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 1513 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• ISBN-10: 0-333-64322-4 / 0333643224
• ISBN-13: 978-0-333-64322-8 / 9780333643228
• Zustand: Neuware