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To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space

Gaydarska, Bisserka; Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Ramírez Valiente, Paz; Fries, Jana Esther; Hofmann, Daniela; Augereau, Anne; Chapman, John; Mina, Maria; Pape, Eleonore; Ialongo, Nicola; Nordholz, Daniela; Bickle, Penny; Haughton, Mark; Robb, John; Harris, Oliver

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Authors

Bisserka Gaydarska

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Paz Ramírez Valiente

Jana Esther Fries

Daniela Hofmann

Anne Augereau

John Chapman

Maria Mina

Eleonore Pape

Nicola Ialongo

Daniela Nordholz

Penny Bickle

Mark Haughton

John Robb

Oliver Harris



Abstract

This article is based on an EAA session in Kiel in 2021, in which thirteen contributors provide their response to Robb and Harris's (2018) overview of studies of gender in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, with a reply by Robb and Harris. The central premise of their 2018 article was the opposition of ‘contextual Neolithic gender’ to ‘cross-contextual Bronze Age gender’, which created uneasiness among the four co-organizers of the Kiel meeting. Reading Robb and Harris's original article leaves the impression that there is an essentialist ‘Neolithic’ and ‘Bronze Age’ gender, the former being under-theorized, unclear, and unstable, the latter binary, unchangeable, and ideological. While Robb and Harris have clearly advanced the discussion on gender, the perspectives and case studies presented here, while critical of their views, take the debate further, painting a more complex and diverse picture that strives to avoid essentialism.

Citation

Gaydarska, B., Rebay-Salisbury, K., Ramírez Valiente, P., Fries, J. E., Hofmann, D., Augereau, A., Chapman, J., Mina, M., Pape, E., Ialongo, N., Nordholz, D., Bickle, P., Haughton, M., Robb, J., & Harris, O. (2023). To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space. European Journal of Archaeology, 26(3), 271-298. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.51

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 9, 2023
Online Publication Date Jan 9, 2023
Publication Date 2023-08
Deposit Date Jan 30, 2023
Publicly Available Date Jan 30, 2023
Journal European Journal of Archaeology
Print ISSN 1461-9571
Electronic ISSN 1741-2722
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 26
Issue 3
Pages 271-298
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.51
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1184207

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