Chapter 4 New Archaeology, Old Europe, and the Feminist Science Debates Marija Gimbutas' "Pre-Her-Story" in Academia
The chapter traces Gimbutas' engagement with gender as a research topic, proposing that her work on European prehistory should be seen as written from a feminist point of view. It explains her contributions to rewriting prehistory from a women-centered perspective, her reinterpretations of fema...
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