Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. The study of gender and women in archaeology -- Gender archaeology and archaeology of women : do we need both? / Ruth D. Whitehouse -- On gender negotiation and its materiality / Marie Louise Stig S�rensen -- pt. 2. Women in archaeology -- Winifred Lamb : her first year as a student at the British School at Athens / David W.J. Gill -- Pioneers in Palestine : the women excavators of El-Wad Cave, 1929 / Jane Callander and Pamela Jane Smith -- Marija Gimbutas : setting the agenda / Ernestine S. Elster -- Women in practice : women in British contract field archaeology / Sue Hamilton -- Genderin' experimental archaeology / Steve Townend -- Warriors and weavers : constructing Iron Age identities in museums / Sue Ballard -- pt. 3. Women in antiquity -- Bones of work at the origins of labour / Theya Molleson -- Women and the emergence of urban society in Mesopotamia / Katherine I. Wright -- Women of Lahun (Egypt 1800 BC) / Stephen Quirke -- Figurines without sex : people without gender? / Maria Mina -- Anklets and the social construction of gender and age in the late Bronze and early Iron Age Southern Levant / John D.M. Green -- Expressing gender in Bronze Age North East Thailand : the case of Non Nok Tha / Elisabeth A. Bacus -- Stirring women, weapons and weaving : aspects of gender identity and symbols of power in early Anglo-Saxon England / Sue Harrington -- Gender and archaeological site formation : ethnoarchaeological studies in parts of Nigeria / C.A. Folorunso -- Painted genders : the construction of gender roles through the display of body painting by the Selk'nam and the Y�amana from Tierra Del Fuego (Southern South America) / D�anae Fiore.

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