Rasa Navickaite

Marija Gimbutas

Transnational Biography, Feminist Reception, and the Controversy of Goddess Archaeology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a biography and reception history of the Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994). It presents the first transnational account of Gimbutas' life based on historical research, and an original examination of the impact of her ideas in various feminist contexts, both academic and popular.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781032104898
• ISBN-10: 1032104899
• Artikelnr.: 65610427

Autorenporträt

Rasa Navickait¿ is a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include gender and sexuality studies, history of science, Eastern European politics and societies.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction: Writing Marija Gimbutas; PART I: The Making of
Marija Gimbutas in National and Transnational Contexts: A Critical
Biography; Chapter 2. From Interwar Vilnius to Postwar Germany; Chapter 3.
Life and Career in the U.S.; PART II: Transnational Feminist Reception of
Marija Gimbutas: Archaeology, Spirituality, and Nationalism; Chapter 4. New
Archaeology, Old Europe, and the Feminist Science Debates: Marija Gimbutas'
"Pre-Her-Story" in Academia; Chapter 5. Searching for Old Europe: Marija
Gimbutas and the Problem of Cultural Appropriation in Feminist
Spirituality; Chapter 6. The Archaeologist of Nation and Gender: Gimbutas
and Post-Socialist Lithuanian Feminism; Chapter 7. Conclusion.