Gender Violence in the American Southwest (AD 1100-1300): Mothers, Sisters, Wives, Slaves

by Claira Ralston and Debra L Martin

This volume uses osteobiography and individual-level analyses of burials retrieved from the La Plata River Valley (New Mexico) to illustrate the variety of roles that Ancestral Pueblo women played in the past (circa AD 1100-1300). The experiences of women as a result of their gender, age, and status over the life course are reconstructed, with consideration given to the gendered forms of violence they were subject to and the consequences of social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367642239
• ISBN13: 9780367642235
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"