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By Jane Peterson

The switch from a hunting-gathering way of life to at least one established upon farming constitutes a very 'revolutionary' occasion within the human profession. such a lot archaeologists agree that how historic humans equipped their paintings and relatives teams was once the most important to the luck of early makes an attempt at farming. but little critical awareness has been paid to the social association of work within the prehistoric previous. This e-book addresses that lacuna via investigating sexual divisions of work. As a case examine, Peterson selected the southern Levant of West Asia, the place the world's first farming societies emerged a few 10,000 years in the past. Shattering lengthy held assumptions approximately women's paintings that bring about generalizations approximately gender roles, Peterson exhibits that gender stories should be either clinical and punctiliously grounded in feminist theory.

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