Images of power and contradiction: feminist theory and post-processual archaeology
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Antiquity
- Vol. 65 (248) , 502-514
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00080108
Abstract
Archaeology, like many of the sciences, works to a masculine metaphor, the (male) archaeologist as hero explores and tames the mysteries of his (female) subject. Feminist theory has made important criticism of positivist science on these grounds, drawing on much the same postmodern theory as ‘post-processual’ archaeology. How do the ‘post-processuals’ appear, seen in the feminist light?Keywords
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