(Ebook) A Companion to Gender Prehistory by Diane Bolger (ed.) ISBN 9780470655368, 0470655364

(Ebook) A Companion to Gender Prehistory by Diane Bolger (ed.) ISBN 9780470655368, 0470655364

• Provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of gender archaeology, with an exclusive focus on prehistory
• Offers critical overviews of developments  in the archaeology of gender over the last 30 years, as well as assessments of current trends and prospects for future research
• Focuses on recent Third Wave approaches to the study of gender in early human societies, challenging heterosexist biases, and  investigating the interfaces between gender and  status, age,  cognition, social memory, performativity, the body, and sexuality
• Features numerous regional and thematic topics authored by established specialists in the field,   with incisive coverage of gender research in prehistoric and protohistoric cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific