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Title Exploring sex and gender in bioarchaeology / edited by Sabrina C. Agarwal and Julie K. Wesp
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (x, 295 pages)
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. One Sex, Gender, and Anthropology: Moving Bioarchaeology Outside the Subdiscipline / Rosemary A. Joyce -- pt. I Theoretical Approaches to Sex and Gender in the Past -- ch. Two Bones, Biases, and Birth: Excavating Contemporary Gender Norms from Reproductive Bodies of the Past / Dana Walrath -- ch. Three Bioarchaeological Approaches to Nonbinary Genders: Case Studies from Native North America / Sandra E. Hollimon -- ch. Four Brave Old World: Ancient DNA Testing and Sex Determination / Pamela L. Geller -- ch. Five Embodying Sex/Gender Systems in Bioarchaeological Research / Julie K. Wesp -- pt. II Bioarchaeological Reconstructions of Gendered Identity, Health, and Disease -- ch. Six On the Stories of Men and the Substance of Women: Interrogating Gender through Violence / Shannon A. Novak -- ch. Seven Understanding Sex- and Gender-Related Patterns of Bone Loss and Health in the Past: A Case Study from the Neolithic Community of Catalhoyuk / Sabrina C. Agarwal -- ch. Eight Sex and Frailty: Patterns from Catastrophic and Attritional Assemblages in Medieval Europe / Sharon N. DeWitte -- ch. Nine Mercury in the Midst of Mars and Venus: Reconstructing Gender, Sexuality, and Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Mercury Treatment for Syphilis in Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century London / Molly K. Zuckerman -- ch. Ten Bioarchaeology of Oral Health: Sex and Gender Differences in Dental Disease / John R. Lukacs
Summary This volume brings together the latest approaches in bioarchaeology in the study of sex and gender
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2017)
Subject Human remains (Archaeology) -- Sex differences
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Sex differences
Form Electronic book
Author Agarwal, Sabrina C., editor.
Wesp, Julie K., editor.
LC no. 2016017708
ISBN 9780826352590
0826352596
0826352588
9780826352583