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Women's archaeology? Political feminism, gender theory and historical revision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Roberta Gilchrist
Roberta Gilchrist*
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Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ
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Women's issues are deservedly a growing concern in archaeology, with concerns that run from the power (im)balance between the sexes in the present practice of archaeology to the technical question of how gender-relations are, or are not, recoverable from archaeological context. The several aspects that lie within the phrase ‘women's archaeology’are explored.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 248 , September 1991 , pp. 495 - 501
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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