Women in Antiquity

  • Women in Antiquity: Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Archaeology
    Women in Antiquity: Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Archaeology
    By Sarah Milledge Nelson

    However, there are few studies that begin with taking women as the focal point for understanding the past through ethnoarchaeology (stage 5). Certainly, a gendered past and gendered ethnoarchaeological studies that fully incorporate ...

  • Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World
    Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World
    By Jean MacIntosh Turfa, Stephanie Lynn Budin

    Monge, J. M. and McCarthy, C. (2011) Interpersonal violence against woman at the site of Hasanlu, Iran. In R.Dyson (ed.) Hasanlu, Volume 4. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, pp. 184–193.

  • Women in Antiquity: Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Archaeology
    Women in Antiquity: Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Archaeology
    By Sarah M. Nelson

    Archaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider...

  • Women in Antiquity: New Assessments
    Women in Antiquity: New Assessments
    By Richard Hawley, Barbara Levick, Dr Barbara Levick

    The study of gender in classical antiquity has undergone rapid and wide-ranging development in the past.

  • Women in Antiquity: Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Archaeology
    Women in Antiquity: Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Archaeology
    By Sarah M. Nelson

    The book includes chapters on the history of gender research, historical texts, mortuary analysis, household remains, hierarchy, and ethnoarchaeology, with each chapter teasing out the inherent difficulty in interpreting ancient evidence as ...

  • Women in Antiquity
    Women in Antiquity
    By Charles Seltman

    The final chapters show how anti-feminism was developed by the Fathers of the Church and frankly discuss monasticism and celibacy. The book is fully documented, and the carefully chosen illustrations are exceptionally interesting.