Gender and Material Culture
The Archaeology of Religious Women
By Roberta Gilchrist
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-08903-6
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 2nd December 1993
- Pages: 240
About the Book
Gender and Material Culture is the first book to consider the way in which women's monasticism differed from men's. Traditional scholarship has tended to dismiss nunneries as poor, or failed, monasteries. Here Roberta Gilchrist reveals through a close comparison of monasteries for men and women, stark contrasts in the social and economic status of these religous foundations. The book provides the first complete case of study in the applied archaeology of gender, which will radically inform medieval and early modern women's history.
