The Extreme History Project: The Dirt on the Past

Feminism and Gender in Archaeology with Meg Conkey


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Join us for a deep dive into gender and feminism in archaeology with archaeologist, Meg Conkey. Meg is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and is known for introducing feminist perspectives into archaeology. We discuss her early work with Janet Spector, Joan Gero, and others to bring women and gender into the study of archaeology and what it means to do archaeology as a feminist.

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Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory edited by Margaret Conkey and Joan Gero

What this Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village by Janet Spector
Archaeologies of the Heart by Kisha Supernant, Jane Eva Baxter, Natasha Lyons, and Sonya Atalay
Reindeer Moon by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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