Joan Margaret Gero was an American archaeologist and pioneer of feminist archaeology. Her research focused on gender and power issues in prehistory, particularly in the Andean regions of Argentina and Peru.
Gero, J. 2015. Yutopian: Archaeology, Ambiguity and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Gero, J. 2012. Femidoxy: a private challenge to orthodox field methodology. Labrys. Études feministes https://www.labrys.net.br/labrys22/archeo/gero.htm#uma
Loring S. & J. Gero. 2012. The evolution of happiness. Archaeologies 8: 376-402. doi:
Gero, J. 2007. Honoring Ambiguity/Problematizing Certitude. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 14: 311–327.
Gero, J.M. 2004. Sexpots of Ancient Peru: Post-Gender Reflections. In Pre-history in a Global Perspective: A Conference in Honor of Professor Randi Haaland’s Contribution to Archaeology, Nils Anfinset pp. 3–22.
Gero, J. M. & M. C. Scattolin. 2002. Beyond complementarity and hierarchy: new definitions for archaeological gender relations, in S. Nelson & M. Rosen-Ayalon In pursuit of gender: worldwide archaeological perspectives: 155-71. Walnut Creek : Altamira Press.
Gero, J.M. 2000. Troubled Travels in Agency and Feminism. In Agency in Archaeology, edited by Marcia-Anne Dobres and John Robb, pp. 34–39. Routledge
Conkey, M. and Gero, J.M. 1997. Programme to practice: gender and feminism in archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 26: 411–437.
Gero, J.M. 1996. Archaeological practice and gendered encounters with field data, in R. Wright Gender and archaeology: 251-80. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Gero, J.M. 1994. Excavation Bias and the Woman-at-Home Ideology. In Equity Issues for Women in Archaeology, edited by M. Nelson, S. Nelson and A. Wylie. American Anthropological Asso. Archaeological Papers No. 5., 1994
Gero, J. M. 1993. The social world of prehistoric facts: gender and power in Paleoindian research, in H. du Cros & L. Smith Women in archaeology. A feminist critique : 31-40. Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.
Gero, J.M. 1992. Feasts and females: Gender ideology and political meals in the Andes. Norwegian Archaeological Review 25
Gero, J.M. 1991. Genderlithics: women's roles in stone tool production. In Engendering Archaeology.
Gero, J. M. & M. W. Conkey. 1991. Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory. Oxford: Blackwell.
Gero, J. M. & D. Root. 1990. Public presentations and private concerns: archaeology in the pages of National Geographic, in P. Gathercole & D. Lowenthal The Politics of the Past: 19-37. New York: Routledge.
Gero, J. 1985 Socio-politics of archaeology and the woman-at-home ideology. American Antiquity 50: 342–350.
Gero, J. M. 1983. Gender bias in archaeology: a cross-cultural perspective, in J. M. Gero, D. M. Lacy & M. L. Blakey The socio-politics of archaeology: 51-57. Amherst: Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts.