Screen LibraryThe bioarchaeology of socio-sexual lives : queering common sense about sex, gender, and sexuality /
This volume uses bioarchaeological remains to examine the complexities and diversity of past socio-sexual lives. This book does not begin with the presumption that certain aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality are universal and longstanding. Rather, the case studies within extend from Neolithic Euro...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40995-5 |
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This volume uses bioarchaeological remains to examine the complexities and diversity of past socio-sexual lives. This book does not begin with the presumption that certain aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality are universal and longstanding. Rather, the case studies within extend from Neolithic Europe to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to the nineteenth-century United States highlight the importance of culturally and historically contextualizing socio-sexual beliefs and practices. The Bioarachaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives highlights a major shortcoming in many scholarly and popular presentations o |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(xxi,232pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319409955 |
| Index Number: | CC1 |
| CLC: | K85 |
| Contents: | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Corpus -- Chapter 3: Common Sense and Queer Matter -- Chapter 4: "Grave News, Romance is Dead" -- Chapter 5: Labor Codes -- Chapter 6: "She Gives Birth" -- Chapter 7: Brave Old World. . |