| List of Illustrations | viii |
| Acknowledgements | x |
Part I |
1 | Gender into the Past | 3 |
| Gender and archaeology: an introduction | 3 |
| Arguing for gender archaeology | 7 |
| The need for theorizing | 10 |
| Outline of an argument | 12 |
2 | Gender and Archaeology: a History | 16 |
| The development of feminist critique and gender archaeology | 16 |
| The relatively late inclusion of gender in archaeology? | 20 |
| The presentation of women in archaeology and prehistory | 24 |
| Epistemology, gender and archaeology | 34 |
| The nature of gender archaeology: contextualization | 37 |
3 | Theorizing Gender: Sex and Gender | 41 |
| The sex--gender discussion | 42 |
| What is sex?--current discussions within archaeology | 45 |
| What is gender?--current discussions and archaeological practice | 52 |
| On the relationship between sex and gender | 54 |
4 | Theorizing Gender: Negotiation and Practice | 60 |
| Gender negotiation | 60 |
| Agency and gender in archaeology | 63 |
| The agent, the individual and archaeology | 65 |
| Woman or women: the question of cross-cultural generalizations | 67 |
| Gender (and) archaeology | 70 |
5 | The Materiality of Gender: the Gendered Object | 74 |
| Gender and the object | 74 |
| The nature of objects | 76 |
| The materiality of gender: communication and practice | 82 |
| Constructing gender through things, making objects gendered | 89 |
Part II |
6 | Food: the Performance of Feeding and Eating | 99 |
| Nutritious and symbolic: the culture of food | 99 |
| Food and embodiment | 102 |
| Discourse through food | 106 |
| Drinking as social performance | 117 |
| Archaeology, food and gender | 122 |
7 | Dressing Gender: Identity through Appearance | 124 |
| The point of clothes | 124 |
| Dress and archaeology: a brief outline | 127 |
| Methodology and analysis | 131 |
| Dress and identity in prehistory | 136 |
| A fabric for discourse | 142 |
8 | The Engendering of Space | 144 |
| Gendered space | 144 |
| Archaeology and space | 146 |
| Phenomenology and the landscape's space | 152 |
| House and home | 156 |
| Archaeology, gender and space | 166 |
9 | Contact: the Short-lived Triangle | 168 |
| Adultery--changing partner | 168 |
| Contact and innovation | 169 |
| The archaeology of contact | 171 |
| Technology and the danger of the new | 177 |
| Gender and contact, gender as contact | 180 |
10 | The Beginning: on Becoming Gendered | 182 |
| A gendered world, or looking back to the beginning | 182 |
| Gender research and the origin of humans | 187 |
| Gendered cultural expression and practice during the Upper Palaeolithic | 190 |
| Gender and the Palaeolithic: self-reflection and artifice | 200 |
11 | Reflections | 203 |
| References | 209 |
| Index | 226 |