Gender and Material Culture in Historical Perspective (Studies in Gender and Material Culture) - Hardcover

Moira Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333643216 ISBN 13: 9780333643211

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

Historians' usual source material is the written word, but this volume shows just how illuminating the study of artefacts, and related documentary material can be for the historian. Ranging from the use of clothing as votive offerings in ancient Greece to the function of reproductive technology in the twentieth century, this volume is excitingly dismissive of traditional chronologies and disciplinary boundaries.

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About the Author:

MOIRA DONALD is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter. She has published on the history of the European socialist movement and on women's history in Britain and Russia. She is currently writing a book on the culture and material culture of the socialist movement as well as editing works on twentieth century revolutions and women, trade and business in history. Her work on gender and material culture has focused on gendered possession of clocks, watches, on which she has included a paper in the present volume. LINDA HURCOMBE is Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Exeter. Her research interests focus on stone tools from a variety of contexts and periods but expand to general issues of archaeological material culture and its interpretation. She has published both in these fields and in the perceptions of gender issues within the discipline and is currently preparing a book on the transformation of materials into material culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0333643216
• ISBN 13: 9780333643211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216