This book explores the biographies of five women archaeologists: Irina Rusanova in the Soviet Union; Zhivka Văzharova in Bulgaria; Maria Comşa in Romania; Ágnes Cs. Sós in Hungary; and Helena Zoll-Adamikowa in Poland. Little if any attention has been paid to individual archaeologists in Eastern Europe under Communism, and to the way in which they adopted and adapted Marxism to the archaeological practice, from fieldwork to interpretation. Equally neglected is the lack of any concern with gender issues in the archaeology of Communist countries. There are also, with a few exceptions, very few studies dedicated to women archaeologists. This is both surprising and regrettable, given the extraordinary opportunity offered by the study of women archaeologists working under the Communist regime. Because the equality between women and men was a postulate of Marxist ideology, such a study can serve as a good testing ground for some of the key tenets of third-wave feminism, especially the idea that gender inequality is rooted in disciplinary culture.weiterlesen