Archaeology and Gender Politics – a bibliography

We'd like this bibliography to keep growing - if you can add something useful then please e-mail us here: womeninarchaeology@hotmail.com

Aitchison, K. and Edwards, R. 2008. Archaeology Labour Market Intelligence: Profiling the Profession 2007-08. Reading: Institute of Field Archaeologists.

Athena SWAN, 2009. Online at: http://www.athenaswan.org.uk/html/athena-swan. [a charter recognising good employment practice for women working in science, engineering and technology (SET) in higher education and research]

CamAWiSE. 2008. Cambridge Association for Women in Science and Engineering. Online at: http://www.camawise.org.uk.

Champion, S. 1998. Women in British Archaeology: visible and invisible. In M. Diaz Andreu and M.-L. Stig Sørensen (eds) Excavating Women: A history of women in European archaeology, 175-197. London: Routledge.

Diaz Andreu, M. and Stig Sørensen, M.-L. 1998. Excavating women: towards an engendered history of archaeology. In M. Diaz Andreu and M.-L. Stig Sørensen (eds) Excavating Women: A history of women in European archaeology, 1-30. London: Routledge.

EOC. 2006. Facts about women and men in Great Britain. Manchester: Equal Opportunities Commission.

Fawcett 2008. The Fawcett Society. Online at: http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk. [an essential resource for anyone interested in UK gender politics]

Gaydarska, B. 2009. A brief history of TAG. Antiquity 83, 1152-1162. [some useful gendered statistics here].

Gero, J.M. 1985. Socio-politics of archaeology and the woman-at-home ideology. American Antiquity 50, 342-350.

Gilchrist, R. 1991. Men and women in Archaeology: issues of employment and education. The Field Archaeologist 14, 250-251.

HESA. 2008a. Higher Education Statistics Agency: Higher Education Statistics for the UK 1994/95-2000/01. Online at: http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task= view&id=801&Itemid=250. [HE statistics for the UK]

HESA. 2008b. Higher Education Statistics Agency: Press Release 118. Online: http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php/content/view/1120/161. [proportion of UK female professors in 2006/07 (17.5%), Archaeology was 6.5% below this average].

Kenyon, K. 1970. Women in academic life: the Galton Lecture (1969). Journal of Biosocial Science Supplement 2, 107-118.

McWilliams-Tullberg, R. 1975. Women at Cambridge: A Men's University – though of a mixed type. London: Victor Gollancz.

Marks, P. 1976. Femininity in the classroom: An account of changing attitudes. In J. Mitchell and A. Oakley (eds) The Rights and Wrongs of Women, 176-198. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Morley, L. and Walsh, V. 1996. Breaking boundaries: Women in Higher Education. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis.

Morris, E. (ed.) 1991. Women in British Archaeology. 1990/1 Equal Opportunities in Archaeology Working Party Report. Birmingham: Institute of Field Archaeologists.

Nelson, M., Nelson, S. and Wylie, A. (eds) Equity Issues for Women in Archaeology (Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 5), 94-97. Arlington (VA): American Anthropological Association.

O’Sullivan, D. 1994. Mapping women’s place in contemporary archaeology. In M. Nelson, S. Nelson, and A. Wylie (eds) Equity issues for women in archaeology (Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 5), 94-97. Arlington (VA): American Anthropological Association.

Pope, R.E. forthcoming. Gender politics and the New Archaeology: the loss of innocence. In P. Smith, J. Barrett, M. Harrison, R.E. Pope, E. Robinson, and M. Van der Linden ‘Personal Histories: the New Archaeology’. Journal of Field Archaeology.

Roberts, J. 1995. British women archaeologists from 1714-1939. Unpublished MPhil thesis, University of Wales, Cardiff.

Sørensen, M.L.S. 1998. Rescue and recovery: on historiographies of female archaeologists.

In M. Diaz Andreu and M.-L. Stig Sørensen (eds) Excavating Women: A history of women in European archaeology, 31-60. London: Routledge.

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UoC. 2007b. Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: Academic Performance. Online at: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/factsheets/women1.html.

UoC. 2007c. Women at Cambridge: Employment Figures. Online at: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/factsheets/women3.html.

Wickstead, H. 2009. The Über Archaeologist: Art, GIS and the male gaze revisited. Journal of Social Archaeology 9(2), 249-271.

WiSETI. 2008. The University of Cambridge Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative. Online at: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/equality/wiseti.

Wylie, A. 1993. Workplace issues for women in archaeology: the chilly climate. In H. du Cros and L. Smith (eds) Women in Archaeology: a feminist
critique, 245-260. Canberra: Australian National University.

Wylie, A., Jakobsen, J.R. and Fosado, G. 2007. Women, Work and the Academy: Strategies for Responding to ‘Post-Civil Rights Era’ Gender
Discrimination. Barnard Center for Research on Women. Online at: http://feministphilosophers.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/bcrw-womenworkacademy_08.pdf.