Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations

In many facets of Western culture, including archaeology, there remains a legacy of perceiving gender divisions as natural, innate, and biological in origin. Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public dena

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Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations From Private to Public

Editor Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood Department of Sociology and Anthropology Oakland University Rochester, Michigan USA Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA

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Author Biographies

Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh is an associate professor of archaeology in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research interest focuses on gender. She has written a monograph on gender constructions in the Scandinavian Viking Age and several articles on Viking Age material culture. She also does research in the historiography of archaeology and is about to finish a biography on the archaeologist and feminist Hanna Rydh. Stacey Lynn Camp is an assistant professor at the University of Idaho in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She is