Gender and Material Culture

The Archaeology of Religious Women

By: Roberta Gilchrist

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Hardcover | 2 December 1993 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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13

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23.39 x 15.6 x 1.42

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"Gender and Material Culture" is the first archaeological study to focus on the lives of medieval religious women and as such represents the first complete case study in the archaeology of gender. Despite the hundreds of archaeology books and articles on monasticism, not one has considered that women's monasticism may have differed from men's. Instead, traditional scholarship has dismissed nunneries as poor or failed monasteries. Although recent historians have begun to re-evaluate their approach to the study of religious women, they have yet to consider the material culture of these monasteries.
In its comparison of monasteries for men and women, "Gender and Material Culture" shows how the categories of gender greatly influenced the design and organization of medieval monasteries, their landscape contexts and strategies of economic management, the form and development of buildings and their symbolic and iconographic content. The archaeology of these institutions more specifically reveals stark contrasts in the social and economic status of monasteries and their social links with patrons. The result is an innovative and insightful study that ultimately proves how the category of gender is an essential part of archaeological analysis.

Industry Reviews

"[A] highly readable work....This book, rich in detail and convincing in its analysis, makes an important contribution to our understanding of differences in the religious life of men and women of the 12th through 15th centuries." -"Historical Archaeology "[Gender and Material Culture]'s attention to gender provides the antidote to androcentric studies that the author intends and offers new insight into the physical environments of English medieval religious women, useful to both the serious student and scholarly reader." -"Religious Studies Review "She [Gilchrist] has used a balanced approach to gender studies, neither overemphasizing nor neglecting archaeological evidence... For people interested in works with a feminist agenda, this book is excellent. Throughout the book, the author seeks alternatives to standard male oriented interpretations of evidence." -"Biblical Archaeologist

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