Sexual Revolutions
Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2002
192 pages
979-8-216-30206-3 (ISBN)
Description
The change from a hunting-gathering lifestyle to one dependent upon farming constitutes a truly 'revolutionary' event in the human career. Most archaeologists agree that how ancient people organized their work and family groups was crucial to the success of early attempts at farming. Yet little serious attention has been paid to the social organization of labor in the prehistoric past. This book addresses that lacuna by investigating sexual divisions of labor. As a case study, Peterson chose the southern Levant of West Asia, where the world's first farming societies emerged some 10,000 years ago. Shattering long held assumptions about women's work that lead to generalizations about gender roles, Peterson shows that gender studies can be both scientific and thoroughly grounded in feminist theory.
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Jane Peterson is assistant professor of anthropology at Marquette University.
Content
Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Chapter 1: An Investigation of Labor Patterns
Chapter 3 Work Patterns and Sexual Divisions: Historical Background
Chapter 4 Social Models in Archaeology: Past and Future
Chapter 5 Sex and Gender Terminology
Chapter 6 Study Area and Chronology
Chapter 7 Organizations
Part 8 Chapter 2: Archaeological Evidence from the Southern Levant
Chapter 9 Natufian Period
Chapter 10 Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period
Chapter 12 Chalcolithic Period
Chapter 13 Early Bronze I Period
Chapter 14 Summary
Part 15 Chapter 3: Markers of Occupational Stress
Chapter 16 Historical Overview
Chapter 17 Structural Changes
Chapter 18 Joint Modification
Chapter 19 Trauma
Chapter 20 Tooth wear, Dental Trauma, and Caries
Chapter 21 Musculoskeletal Stress Markers
Chapter 22 Summary
Part 23 Chapter 4: Occupational Evidence and Hypotheses From the Levant
Chapter 24 Extant Studies
Chapter 25 Chronological Summary
Chapter 26 Conclusions
Part 27 Chapter 5: New Musculoskeletal Stress Markers
Chapter 28 Materials
Chapter 29 Methods
Chapter 30 Analytical Techniques
Chapter 31 Natufian Results
Chapter 32 Neolithic Results
Chapter 33 Early Bronze I Results
Part 34 Chapter 6: Modeling Changing Labor Scenarios
Chapter 35 Integrating MSM with previous activity reconstructions
Chapter 36 Activities and Performance Spaces
Chapter 37 Models of Sexual Labor Changes with the Advent of Farming
Chapter 38 An Engendered Model
Part 39 Bibliography
Part 40 Index
Part 41 About the Author
Chapter 42 Neolithic Period
Part 2 Chapter 1: An Investigation of Labor Patterns
Chapter 3 Work Patterns and Sexual Divisions: Historical Background
Chapter 4 Social Models in Archaeology: Past and Future
Chapter 5 Sex and Gender Terminology
Chapter 6 Study Area and Chronology
Chapter 7 Organizations
Part 8 Chapter 2: Archaeological Evidence from the Southern Levant
Chapter 9 Natufian Period
Chapter 10 Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period
Chapter 12 Chalcolithic Period
Chapter 13 Early Bronze I Period
Chapter 14 Summary
Part 15 Chapter 3: Markers of Occupational Stress
Chapter 16 Historical Overview
Chapter 17 Structural Changes
Chapter 18 Joint Modification
Chapter 19 Trauma
Chapter 20 Tooth wear, Dental Trauma, and Caries
Chapter 21 Musculoskeletal Stress Markers
Chapter 22 Summary
Part 23 Chapter 4: Occupational Evidence and Hypotheses From the Levant
Chapter 24 Extant Studies
Chapter 25 Chronological Summary
Chapter 26 Conclusions
Part 27 Chapter 5: New Musculoskeletal Stress Markers
Chapter 28 Materials
Chapter 29 Methods
Chapter 30 Analytical Techniques
Chapter 31 Natufian Results
Chapter 32 Neolithic Results
Chapter 33 Early Bronze I Results
Part 34 Chapter 6: Modeling Changing Labor Scenarios
Chapter 35 Integrating MSM with previous activity reconstructions
Chapter 36 Activities and Performance Spaces
Chapter 37 Models of Sexual Labor Changes with the Advent of Farming
Chapter 38 An Engendered Model
Part 39 Bibliography
Part 40 Index
Part 41 About the Author
Chapter 42 Neolithic Period
