Gender

See also:

• Science: Social Sciences: Psychology: Gender and Sexuality  (27)

Archaeology of Gender Syllabus - - Syllabus of class offered in 1997 at Western Michigan University.

Exploring Gender Through Archaeology - - Online version of volume of papers from the 1991 Boone Conference edited by Cheryl Claassen.

Gender Archaeology: A Bibliography - - A detailed bibliography from Northern Arizona University.

How a Feminist Stance Improves Archaeology - - An article by Sarah Milledge Nelson with the implication that focusing on gender leads to better archaeology. [PDF.

Images of Women in Ancient Art - - Issues of interpretation and identity from Chris Witcombe of Sweet Briar College.

Warrior Women of Eurasia - - Ancient burial mounds in Russia have yielded skeletons of women buried with weapons, suggesting the Greek Amazon tales may have had some basis in fact.

Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity - - An online version of a Kelsey Museum exhibition mounted from March 14 through June 15, 1997, and curated by Terry G. Wilfong.

Women in the Ancient Near East: - - Bibliography of recent sources in The Oriental Institute Research Archives.

Dig Finds New Kind of Roman Camp - - From New Zealand Herald, the remains of a young Roman man who dressed as a woman and probably castrated himself show a previously unknown side of Britain's ancient history. (May 23, 2002)