Gender, Feminist, and Queer Archaeologies: Spanish Perspective

Introduction

In the 1970s, in the aftermath of second-wave feminism, feminist scholars identified androcentric sexist biases behind scientific research, which included archaeology. They noticed that both the professional practice and the interpretation/presentation of the past were permeated by values enmeshed in the twentieth-century hegemonic gender system, and argued for a culture of equality within the discipline.

In the following decade, Spanish archaeology began to incorporate this critique, lead until then by archaeologists working in Norway and the USA. Since then, the momentum gained by a growing number of researchers has turned feminist and gender studies into one of the most dynamic fields of the discipline in Spain, a field in its own right both in the general context of gender and feminist archaeology and in the particular context of theoretical and methodological discussion in the Iberian Peninsula. In the same way as the pioneers of this field, these researchers have...