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The impact of gender on heritage management is less frequently discussed than the impact of nationalism, globalism, and ethnicity. In this chapter, I start from my experience in gender archaeology to examine how gender is related to heritage. In addition, I discuss the implications of feminist theory, as expressed in archaeology, for heritage. Paralleling a phrase from Wylie (2007), I ask what it means to do heritage as a feminist.
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Levy, J.E. (2013). Gender, Feminism, and Heritage. In: Heritage in the Context of Globalization. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology, vol 8. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6077-0_11
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