Sexual Revolutions : Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Gender and Archaeology
ISBN-10
0759102570
ISBN-13
9780759102576
Publisher
AltaMira Press
Imprint
AltaMira Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 18th, 2002
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
272 grams
Dimensions
22.10 x 14.90 x 1.20 cms
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Description, based upon research evidence from the Near East and elsewhere, of the change in the gendered division of labor during the Neolithic agricultural revolution.
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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