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Gender Studies in Aegean Prehistory

B. Alberti, Archaeology and Maxculinity in Late Bronze Age Knossos (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southampton 1997).

B. Alberti, "Faience Goddesses and Ivory Bull-leapers: The Aesthetics of Sexual Difference at Late Bronze Age Knossos,“ World Archaeology 33(2001) 189-205.

B. Alberti, "Gender and the Figurative Art of Late Bronze Age Knossos," in Y. Hamilakis (ed.), Labyrinth Revisited: Rethinking ‘Minoan’ Archaeology (Oxford 2002) 98-117.

A. Alexandri, Gender Symbolism in Late Bronze Age Aegean Glyptic Art (Ph.D. dissertation, Cambridge University 1994).

A. Alexandri, "Envisioning Gender in Aegean Prehistory," in K. Kopaka (ed.), FYLO. Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean [Aegaeum 30] (Liège/Austin 2009)  19-24.

K. Atchity and E. J. W. Barber, "Greek Princes and Aegean Princesses: The Role of Women in the Homeric Poems," in K. Atchity with R. Hogart and D. Price (eds.), Critical Essays on Homer (Boston 1987) 15-36.

E. J. W. Barber, "Minoan Women and the Challenges of Weaving for Home, Trade, and Shrine," in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 515-519.

B. Berggreen and N. Marinatos (eds.), Greece and Gender (Bergen 1995).

J. C. Billigmeier and J. A. Turner, "The Socio-Economic Roles of Women in Mycenaean Greece: A Brief Survey of Linear B Tablets," in H. Foley (ed.), Reflections of Women in Antiquity (London 1981) 1-18.

D. L. Bolger, “Engendering Cypriot Archaeology: Female Roles and Statuses before the Bronze Age,” Opuscula Atheniensia 20(1994) 9-17.

A. P. Chapin, “Maidenhood and Marriage: The Reproductive Lives of the Girls and Women from Xeste 3, Thera,” Aegean Archaeology 4(1997-2000) 7-25.

A. P. Chapin, “A Man’s World? Gender and Male Coalitions in the West House Miniature Frescoes,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 139-144.

A. P. Chapin, “Boys Will Be Boys: Youth and Gender Identity in the Theran Frescoes,” in A. Cohen and J. B. Rutter (eds.), Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy [Hesperia Supplement 41] (Princeton 2007) 229-255.

M. A. Eaverly, "Color and Gender in Ancient Painting: a Pan-Mediterranean Appraoch," in N. L. Wicker and B. Arnold (eds.), From the Ground Up: Beyond Gender Theory in Archaeology [BAR-IS 812] (Oxford 1999) 5-10.

S. German, “The Human Form in the Late Bronze Age Aegean,” in A. E. Rautman (ed.), Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record (Philadelphia 2000) 95-110.

L. Hitchcock, "Engendering Domination: A Structural and Contextual Analysis of Minoan Neopalatial Bronze Figurines," in J. Moore and E. Scott (eds.), Invisible People and Processes: Writing Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology (London 1997) 113-130.

L. Hitchcock, “Engendering Ambiguity in Minoan Crete: It’s a Drag to Be a King,” in M. Donald and L. Hurcombe (eds.), Representations of Gender from Prehistory to the Present (Houndsmills 2000) 69-86.

H. Hughes-Brock, “Mycenaean Beads: Gender and Social Contexts,” OJA 18(1999) 277-296.

D. Kokkinidou and M. Nikolaïdou, E archaiologia kai e koinonike tautoteta tou phylou: Prosengiseis sten aigaiake proïstoria (Thessaloniki 1993).

D. Kokkinidou and M. Nikolaïdou, "Body Imagery in the Aegean Neolithic: Ideological Implications of Anthropomorphic Figurines," in J. Moore and E. Scott (eds.), Invisible People and Processes: Writing Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology (London 1997) 88-112.

K. Kopaka, "'Women's Arts - Men's Crafts'? Towards a Framework for Approaching Gender Skills in the Prehistoric Aegean," in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 521- 531.

K. Kopaka, "La guerre des femmes en Égée de l'Âge du Bronze: lire entre "les lignes de combat"," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 479-487.

K. Kopaka (ed.), FYLO. Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean [Aegaeum 30] (Liège/Austin 2009).

M. Lee, Semiotic Approaches to the Iconography of Gender in Minoan Neopalatial Bronze Votive Figurines  (M.A. thesis, Bryn Mawr College 1995).

M. M. Lee, “Deciphering Gender in Minoan Dress,” in A. E. Rautman (ed.), Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record (Philadelphia 2000) 111-123.

C. Mee, "Gender Bias in Mycenaean Mortuary Practices,"  in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1998) 165-171.

L. Meskell, "Goddesses, Gimbutas and 'New Age' Archaeology," Antiquity 69(1995) 74-86.

M. Mina, “Gendering Figurines, Engendering People in Early Aegean Preshistory,” in C. Briault, J. Green, A. Kaldelis, and A. Stellatou (eds.), SOMA 2003: Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology [BAR-IS 1391] (Oxford 2005) 111-114.

M. Mina, “Carving Out Gender in the Prehistoric Aegean: Anthropomorphic Figurines of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age,” JMA 21(2008) 213-239.

P. Muhly, "The Great Goddess and the Priest King: Minoan Religion in Flux," Expedition 32:3(1990) 54-60.

M. Nikolaïdou and D. Kokkinidou, "The Symbolism of Violence in Late Bronze Age Palatial Societies of the Aegean: A Gender Approach," in J. Carman (ed.), Material Harm: Archaeological Studies of War and Violence (Glasgow 1997) 174-197.

G. Nordquist, "Male Craft and Female Industry. Two Types of Production in the Aegean Bronze Age," in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 533-537.

M.-L. B. Nosch, “The Women at Work in the Linear B Tablets,” in L. L. Lovén and A. Strömberg (eds.), Gender, Cult, and Culture in the Ancient World from Mycenae to Byzantium [SIMA Pocket-book 166] (Sävedalen 2003).

B. A. Olsen, "Women, Children and the Family in the Late Aegean Bronze Age: Differences in Minoan and Mycenaean Constructions of Gender," World Archaeology 29(1998) 380-392.

B. A. Olsen, Late Minoan Knossos and Late Helladic Pylos in the Linear B Tablets: Gender Construction and Cultural Difference in Two Late Bronze Age Palatial Centers (Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University 1999).

P. Rehak, "The Construction of Gender in Late Bronze Age Aegean Art," in M. Casey, D. Donlon, J. Hope, and S. Wellfare (eds.), Redefining Archaeology: Feminist Prespectives (Canberra 1999) 191-198.

P. Rehak, “Children’s Work: Girls as Acolytes in Aegean Ritual and Cult,” in A. Cohen and J. B. Rutter, Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy [Hesperia Supplement 41] (Princeton 2007) 205-225.

R. Rohrlich-Leavitt, "Women in Transition: Crete and Sumer," in R. Bridenthal and C. Koontz (eds.), Becoming Visible: Women in European History (Boston 1977) 36-59.

L. Steel, “Women in Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting,” in E. Rystedt and B. Wells (eds.), Pictorial Pursuits: Figurative Painting on Mycenaean and Geometric Pottery (Stockholm 2006) 147-155.

D. Sweeney and A. Yasur-Landau, "Following the Path of the Sea Persons: The Women of the Medinet Habu Reliefs," Tel Aviv 26(1999) 116-145.

L. Talalay, "A Feminist Boomerang: The Great Goddess of Greek Prehistory," Gender and History 6(1994) 165-183.

C. G. Thomas, "Matriarchy in Early Greece: the Bronze and Dark Ages," Arethusa 6(1973) 173-195.

P. Treherne, "The Warrior's Beauty: The Masculine Body and Self-identity in Bronze-Age Europe," JEA 3:1(1995) 105-144.

A. Uchitel, "Women at Work: Pylos and Knossos, Lagash and Ur," Historia 33(1984) 257-282.

M. Zeimbeki, “Gender, Kinship and Material Culture in Aegean Bronze Age Ritual,” in K. Kopaka (ed.), FYLO. Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean [Aegaeum 30] (Liège/Austin 2009) 151-163.