Introduction; 1: The Beginnings; 1: The Stories We Have Been Told; 2: Origins; 3: The Importance of Being Upright; 4: Who Brought Home the Bacon?; 5: Gray Matter and Language; 2: The Road to Thoroughly Modern Millie; 6: Leaving the African Cradle; 7: Almost Altogether Truly Modern Humans; 8: The Fashioning of Women; 3: Peopling the World; 9: Cakes, Fish, and Matrilineality; 10: Seamstresses of the Far North; 11: Settling Down in America; 12: The Agricultural Evolution; 3: Conclusion Not Invisible After All
Adovasio, J. M.; Soffer, Olga; Page, Jake
"A fascinating book with a global perspective that is rare in
contemporary discussions of prehistory. The Invisible Sex weaves
the fundamental issues about women in remote prehistory into a
broader analysis of human evolution. There are many issues about
prehistoric men and women that we will never be able to answer, but
this engaging and readable book gives us a useful baseline for
further research. It will be much quoted and used."-Brian Fagan,
University of California Santa Barbara, emeritus
"They argue persuasively that the anthropologists and
archaeologists of the past were invested in the conventional sex
roles of their time. This often rendered them blind to the
implications of some of their finds and uninterested in the crucial
roles that women probably played in prehistoric communities."
-salon.com
"Helps flesh out a more plausible female role in prehistory than
has been offered previously. In many ways, this book is a
much-needed antidote to the past hundred years of popular and
scientific writing on prehistoric human life, and avoids the
cliched pitfall of veering too far into a hyper-feminist view."
-Nature
"The authors offer up some less ambiguous evidence that women's
roles in developing culture were at least commensurate with those
of men in several important areas. Women, according other authors,
had an important part to play in the agricultural revolution. Just
as important, though perhaps less well appreciated, women in both
ancient and modern cultures have been the ones involved most
directly in producing textiles." -Natural History
"Raquel Welch in a loincloth? The frightened, helpless mama in the
dioramas of Natural History museums? The Invisible Sex blows all
these myths out of the cave. Written by a renowned archaeologist,
an anthropologist, and a science journalist, this book disproves
many theories about prehistoric females and males. It argues that
women probably hunted, invented agriculture, and created spoken
language, and that the womanly arts of weaving nets and baskets and
clothing were critical to survival and evolution." -Bust
The Invisible Sex is science writing at its best. It has all the
drama of a good mystery and grabs your attention in the same way.
It is so fascinating, you don't even realize how much you are
learning. - Jean M. Auel
A fascinating book with a global perspective that is rare in
contemporary discussions of prehistory. The Invisible Sex weaves
the fundamental issues about women in remote prehistory into a
broader analysis of human evolution. There are many issues about
prehistoric men and women that we will never be able to answer, but
this engaging and readable book gives us a useful baseline for
further research. It will be much quoted and used. - Brian Fagan,
University of California Santa Barbara, emeritus
I enjoyed The Invisible Sex a lot. It is well-written, lively,
coherent, and says the right things. -Sarah M. Nelson, University
of Denver, emerita
They argue persuasively that the anthropologists and archaeologists
of the past were invested in the conventional sex roles of their
time. This often rendered them blind to the implications of some of
their finds and uninterested in the crucial roles that women
probably played in prehistoric communities. - Salon.com
Helps flesh out a more plausible female role in prehistory than has
been offered previously. In many ways, this book is a much-needed
antidote to the past hundred years of popular and scientific
writing on prehistoric human life, and avoids the cliched pitfall
of veering too far into a hyper-feminist view.- Nature
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