Gender in Pre-Hispanic America
Gender in Pre-Hispanic America
By: Cecelia F. Klein
This volume puts social theory at the forefront of the discussion and offers rich opportunities for comprehending current trends and considering future directions in research.
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Gender in Pre-Hispanic America offers rich opportunities for comprehending current trends and considering future directions in research. It is unique in that it puts social theory at the forefront of the discussion. The book has a special intellectual presence and contemporary relevance in its engagement with the social lives and constructs of its authors and readers alike. The consideration of the role of gender in our daily lives, including in our professions, becomes inescapable when reading this book. It is not simply a question of men’s roles having been possibly overemphasized and overstudied to the detriment of women’s. The fact that genders, as opposed to sexes, are socially constructed categories focuses our attention on the ways in which these and other social constructs have shaped our present understanding of the past and informed past peoples’ understand of their present.
In various articles in this book, the reader will not find unanimity in what is meant by “gender” or how to go about studying it. What will be found, however, is a collection of interesting, informed, thought-provoking, and often lively essays. It is hoped that this volume will mark a stage in an evolving study of this field and provoke new research in the future.
This book was originally published in 2001.
Cecelia F. Klein
Cecelia F. Klein is a retired professor of pre-Columbian art history at UCLA. Her specialization is in Aztec art history, but she also works on imagery at other Mesoamerican sites, most recently at Chichén Itzá. Other interests include the historiography of pre-Columbian art history, the continuation and transformation of Aztec art conventions into the early colonial period, and the relationship of religion to political history.
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