Toward Decolonizing Gender: Female Vision in the Upper Paleolithic

@article{citeulike:307455, abstract = {This interpretive essay examines McDermott's hypothesis that the earliest known images of the human body from the European Upper Paleolithic (so-called Venus figurines) were self-representations by women. The authors ask why it took so long to consider the possibility that these figurines were made by women and suggest that the figurines may have served as obstetrical aids, with the figures' varying abdominal sizes helping women to calculate the progress of their pregnancies.}, author = {Mccoid, Catherine H. and Mcdermott, Leroy D. }, citeulike-article-id = {307455}, keywords = {anthropology, archaeology}, posted-at = {2005-08-30 19:18:34}, priority = {2}, title = {Toward Decolonizing Gender: Female Vision in the Upper Paleolithic}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/682890} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:307455 L3 - citeulike-article-id:307455 N2 - This interpretive essay examines McDermott's hypothesis that the earliest known images of the human body from the European Upper Paleolithic (so-called Venus figurines) were self-representations by women. The authors ask why it took so long to consider the possibility that these figurines were made by women and suggest that the figurines may have served as obstetrical aids, with the figures' varying abdominal sizes helping women to calculate the progress of their pregnancies. TI - Toward Decolonizing Gender: Female Vision in the Upper Paleolithic KW - anthropology KW - archaeology AU - Mccoid, Catherine AU - Mcdermott, Leroy UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/682890 ER -