Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology

Abstract

1. Excavating women: towards an engendered history of archaeology, Margarita Diaz-Andreu and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, SECTION I. GENERAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY, 2. Rescue and recovery: on historiographies of female archeologists, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, 3. Archaeology of French women and French women in Archaeology, Anick Coudart, 4. Gender Politics in Polish archaeology, Liliana Janik and Hanna Zawadzka, 5. Women archaeologists in retrospect: the Norwegian case, Liv Helga Dommasnes, Else Johnsen Kleppe, Gro Mandt and Jenny-Rita Naess, 6. Spanish women in a changing world. Strategies in the search for self-fulfilment through antiquities, Margarita Diaz-Andreu, 7. When the wall came down: East German women employed in archaeology before and after 1989, Ruth Struwe, SECTION II. HISTORY THROUGH THE INDIVIDUAL, 8. Archaeology, gender and emancipation: the paradox of Hanna Rydh, Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh, 9. Women in British Archaeology: visible and invisible, Sara Champion, 10. Fieldwork is not the proper preserve of a lady: the first women archaeologists in Crete, Marina Picazo, 11. The state of Denmark. Lis Jacobsen and other women in and around archaeology, Lise Bender Jorgensen, 12. Greek women in archaeology: an untold story, Marianna Nikolaidou and Dimitra Kokkinidou, 13. From pictures to stories: traces of female PhD graduates from the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Tubingen, Germany, Sibylle Kastner, Viola Maier and Almut Schulke, 14. The impact of modern invasions and migrations on archaeological explanation: a biographical sketch of Marija Gimbutas, John Chapman.