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Introduction – Historical Myths of Sex in Biology and Archaeology In the late 18 th and 19 th cen... more Introduction – Historical Myths of Sex in Biology and Archaeology In the late 18 th and 19 th century, biologists and physicians became acutely involved in trying to confirm women and men as natural opposites with sex-specific mental abilities. This involved a historical change in the perception of sex – from seeing the female as a version of the male sex to two sexes with entirely different bodies, minds and behaviors. Differences between men and women earlier expressed in terms of gender now came with explicit reference to anatomical sex, to biology (Laqueur 1990:152f). The move from a one-sex model to a two-sex model had a lot more to do with politics, ideology and power struggles rather than with advances in scientific knowledge. Claims of sexual difference could be used to support or reject claims about women's and men's behavior in all kinds of contexts, from the social, political and cultural to the erotic and sexual. Contemporary politics of gender deeply affected bi...
Paper presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. 15-20 September 2009, Riva del Garda/Trento, Italy., 2009
See: EAA 2009 Abstract book, p. 70.
Books by Anna Eklund (previous Gatti)
Cookbook for an equal academy /SULF/, 2011
Introduction – Historical Myths of Sex in Biology and Archaeology In the late 18 th and 19 th cen... more Introduction – Historical Myths of Sex in Biology and Archaeology In the late 18 th and 19 th century, biologists and physicians became acutely involved in trying to confirm women and men as natural opposites with sex-specific mental abilities. This involved a historical change in the perception of sex – from seeing the female as a version of the male sex to two sexes with entirely different bodies, minds and behaviors. Differences between men and women earlier expressed in terms of gender now came with explicit reference to anatomical sex, to biology (Laqueur 1990:152f). The move from a one-sex model to a two-sex model had a lot more to do with politics, ideology and power struggles rather than with advances in scientific knowledge. Claims of sexual difference could be used to support or reject claims about women's and men's behavior in all kinds of contexts, from the social, political and cultural to the erotic and sexual. Contemporary politics of gender deeply affected bi...
Paper presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. 15-20 September 2009, Riva del Garda/Trento, Italy., 2009
See: EAA 2009 Abstract book, p. 70.
Cookbook for an equal academy /SULF/, 2011