CSCH 3075 ARCHAEOLOGY AND GENDER
This course is an exploration of the ways archaeologists use material traces of lives in the past to understand sex and gender. We will consider the development of this area of investigation, from early critiques of the invisibility of women in accounts of the past, to the development of Feminist Theory, Gender Studies and Queer Theory as explicit tools for engaging in the study of the lives of men, women, and others in antiquity. Building on this foundation, students will apply these theoretical constructs to research the gendered lives of the residents of the first millennium BCE site of Hasanlu, Iran, using published and unpublished data from the archaeological excavations conducted there. This course will feature field trips to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the University Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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