โ
Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists; Their Search for Adventure
๐
Fiction
๐
2010
๐
Greystone Books
๐
English
โ 3 MB
The first women archaeologists were Victorian era adventurers who felt most at home when farthest from it. Canvas tents were their domains, hot Middle Eastern deserts their gardens of inquiry and labor. Thanks to them, prevailing ideas about feminine nature โ soft, nurturing, submissive โ were upend