Theme:
6. The Mediterranean from Within
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Gender and Sexualities in Material Culture of the Ancient World
Content:
We are glad to invite for this session academic papers related to genders and sexualities in material culture of the Ancient World. We would like to debate about different points of views within postmodern perspectives, such as decolonialism, subaltern perceptions, feminist archaeology, intersectionality, women agencies, masculine dominance, patriarchy, etc.
The first studies on ancient gender and sexuality were carried out focusing on describing and attesting the rationality of the biological body through vestiges of material culture, and what were considered the principles of beauty, temperance, virtue and morality associated with the “normative” rules and its predetermined characteristics. Seen differently in today’s perspective, reflections on gender issues can allow us to observe dominant discourses that hide multiple experiences of gender and sexual representations. Thanks to political movements, such as feminism, it allows us to build critical thinking about how we should reflect on peripheral groups and societies. In this sense, the development of the concept of “gender” is linked to the need to be associated with a better understanding of how it operates in societies, which requires thinking about power in different times and places in a more complex way. Hence, the importance of this discussion may highlight how this kind of study is important to the present, revealing and adding an awareness on diverse sexualities and genders. Our objective is to reflect and produce critical and transdisciplinary remarks about material culture that represent and indicate discourses of power, in a search for a broader and updated analysis of materiality.
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; Ancient Societies; Invisible people in the past; Intersectionality; Feminism in Archaeology; Decolonialism in the past; Subaltern groups in the past.
Keywords:
Ancient World, Classical 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:
Juliana Santos (Brazil) 1
Co-organisers:
Taís Belo (Italy) 2
Thiago Pires (Portugal) 3
Brian Kibuuka (Brazil) 4
Affiliations:
1. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
2. Universidade de São Paulo
3. Centro Universitário Celso Lisboa
4. Universidade de Coimbra
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