Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
How far have gendered studies in archaeology come since the 1990s, when the Women in Archaeology Interest Group (WAIG) was formed? At the time, women constituted a minority of the gender ratio, while today there is near parity between these binaries. Additionally, there was no formal representation by gender non-binary/non-conforming/queer archaeologists at the SAA until 2014. How has the field changed with better representation? How have we expanded, deepened, and enhanced our understandings of gender, broadly writ? In this session, participants will grapple with the concept of gender, as can be understood from archaeological data and theory but also experientially from within the discipline. Discussion will center on the articulation of modern conceptions and past interpretations of gender and will reflect on how gender scholarship—and the gender of scholars—has changed in the last 30+ years.
Other Keywords
Gender and Childhood •
History Of Archaeology •
Iconography and epigraphy •
Lithic Analysis •
Theory •
Gender •
Historic •
Paleolithic •
Neolithic •
feminism
Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
Belize (Country) •
Republic of Guatemala (Country) •
Republic of Panama (Country) •
Worldwide •
Mesoamerica •
Cayman Islands (Country) •
Republic of Honduras (Country)