Women in archaeology : intersectionalities in practice worldwide

Körperschaft: ProQuest (Firm)
Weitere Verfasser: López Varela, Sandra L. , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2023]
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource ( xxi, 617 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), portraits.
Schriftenreihe: Women in engineering and science
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Women in archaeology. (Print version:) | ISSN: 9783031276491
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Women practicing Archaeology
  • Part II. The Americas
  • 2. US Women in Cultural Resource Management: Stories of Courage, Ingenuity, Perseverance, and Intellect
  • 3. Women in the Emergence of Archaeology of Mexico and Central America
  • 4. Digging in Our Grandmothers Gardens: Black Women Archaeologists in the United States from the 1930s to the Present
  • 5. The History of Teotihuacan through the Eyes of Women Scholars
  • 6. Las Mexicanas and their Clay Griddles: Lessons from Ethnoarchaeology for the fight against Poverty
  • 7. Las Invisibles: The Unrecognized Contributions of Women to Ecuadorian Archaeology
  • 8. Myriam N. Tarragó, a Woman at the Crossroads of Argentinian Archaeology
  • 9. Indigenous Archaeologies and the (Re)Action of Women Archaeologists: an Overview of the Brazilian Archaeology Context
  • Part III. Europe
  • 10. Prehistoric archaeology in Spain from a feminist perspective: Thirty years of reflection and debate
  • 11. Womens Pathways in the History of Spanish Archaeology: a new synthesis
  • 12. The professionalization of female prehistorians in France in the Twentieth Century
  • 13. Female and Male Archaeologists in Italy from the Unification (1871) to Contemporary Times
  • 14. Women's Contributions to Archaeology in Germany since the Nineteenth Century
  • 15. Women as Actors and Objects: the Discovery of 'Venus' Figurines in present-day Austria
  • 16. A safe space for women archaeologists? The impact of K.A.N. on Norwegian Archaeology
  • 17. Moving Big Slabs: Lili Kaelas and Märta Strömberg - Two Swedish Pioneers in European Megalith Research
  • 18. Women in the Archaeology of the Trans-Urals (Russian Federation)
  • 19. No Pay, Low Pay, and Unequal Pay: the TrowelBlazers Perspective on the History of Women in Archaeology
  • Part IV. Middle East
  • 20. The story of Nawala Ahmed Al-Mutawalli, a Woman Archaeologist from Iraq
  • Part V. Africa
  • 21. Women and the Foundation of Egyptian Archaeology
  • 22. Female Archaeologists in West Africa: the case of Senegal
  • 23. Tanzanian women in archaeology
  • 24. Women politics and Archaeology in Sudan
  • Part VI. Asia
  • 25. Women in Southeast Asian Archaeology: Discoveries, Accomplishments, and Challenges
  • 26. Swimming against the tide: the journey of a Bengali archaeologist
  • 27. Women in Japanese Archaeology
  • 28. Female Scholars and their Contributions to Chinese Archaeology
  • Part VII. Australia
  • 29. Women in Australian archaeology: challenges and achievements.