Girl Archaeologist: Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496229366)

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Girl Archaeologist recounts Alice Kehoe's life, begun in an era very different from the twenty-first century in which she retired as an honored elder archaeologist. She persisted against entrenched patriarchy in her childhood, at Harvard University, and as she did fieldwork with her husband in the northern plains. A senior male professor attempted to quash Kehoe's career by raping her. Her Harvard professors refused to allow her to write a dissertation in archaeology. Universities paid her less than her male counterparts. Her husband refused to participate in housework or childcare.

Working in archaeology and in the histories of American First Nations, Kehoe published a series of groundbreaking books and articles. Although she was denied a conventional career, through her unconventional breadth of research and her empathy with First Nations people she gained a wide circle of collaborators and colleagues. Throughout her career Kehoe found and fostered a sisterhood of feminists--strong, bright women archaeologists, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians who have been essential to the field.

Girl Archaeologist is the story of how one woman pursued a professional career in a male-dominated field during a time of great change in American middle-class expectations for women.

Author: Alice Beck Kehoe
ISBN-10: 1496229363
ISBN-13: 9781496229366
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2022
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2022