Having difficulty reconciling the methodological problems of assigning gender to skeletal remains while also talking about women as potential heads of families in EM Ireland, comparing the little early textual evidence about women. #medievaltwitter
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We obviously have moved past (or should have) in sexing graves based on grave goods. But applying biological sex to gender is obviously not okay either, whether it’s now or then.
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Gender binaries are a construct, they do not reflect the reality of identities. And even the modern binary is not a one-to-one with past gender binaries.
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So then, a methodological problem I’ve run into is: how do I discuss these burials with respect to gender and status without falling into old and outdated methods of assigning gender? I have not seen an answer
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I suspect there are answers but with regards to what I’m looking at atm (early med Irish burial) I still see female skeleton = woman in the interpretation/discussion.
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