Theme:
4. People of the Present – Peopling the Past
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
How to Make Genders and Sexualities Visible in the Ancient Mediterranean?
Content:
In recent years we have witnessed an increasing interest of some scholars of antiquity in issues related to the representation of “minority” social groups, that is, portions of the population largely neglected by literary sources and classical archaeological production. The first studies on Antiquity were carried out focusing on the search, among the vestiges of material culture, of what were considered the principles of universal beauty and morality, and normally associated with the “normative” genders and their predetermined characteristics.
The reflections on gender issues, based on the analysis of decoloniality, allow us to observe the production of dominant discourses that hides multiple experiences of gender relations and representations of bodies from the point of view of critical thinking about historically marginalized people. In an attempt to build a critical and transdisciplinary thought that is materialized from representations and discourses of power we propose a broader and more decentralized analysis of materiality. It is possible to rethink the idea of a Mediterranean of human relations immersed in discussions that problematize the gender relations in everyday life in the synchronic and diachronic social sphere.
The session aims to present proposals and perspectives on how archeology can contribute to think about biological sexual differences between individuals, feminine, masculine, “non-normative” representations in different societies, the diversity of representations of the body, sexuality and desires on various material supports in the Ancient Mediterranean.
In this way, we wonder how Archeology can contribute to rethinking genders in ancient times from the decolonization of theoretical and methodological analysis that, especially from the 19th century, turned their interests to the Mediterranean.
We invite you to participate with contributions oriented towards the above issues and other similar ones, such as:
Science and theory in the study of human remains
Intersectionality
Invisible people in the past
Feminism in Archaeology
Keywords:
Ancient Mediterranean, Antiquity, Gender Archaeology, Genders and sexualities
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Viviana Lo Monaco (Brazil) 1
Co-organisers:
Juliana Figueira da Hora (Brazil) 2
Juliana Magalhães dos Santos (Brazil) 3
Francesca Dolcetti (Italy) 4
Affiliations:
1. São Paulo State University (UNESP)
2. Universidade de Santo Amaro (UNISA)
3. University of São Paulo (USP)
4. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
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