Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Figures VII
4. List of Tables IX
5. 1. Introduction: Diverse Approaches to the Study of Gender in Archaeology 1
6. 2. Writing the Body in Archaeology 13
7. Part I. Reading the Body from Mortuary Remains
8. 3. Sex, Health, and Gender Roles Among the Arikara of the Northern Plains 25
9. 4. Labor Patterns in the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age 38
10. 5. Reconstructing the Lives of South Etruscan Women 55
11. 6. Gender in Inuit Burial Practices 68
12. 7. The Status of Women in Predynastic Egypt as Revealed Through Mortuary Analysis 77
13. Part II. Reading the Body from Representations of the Human Form
14. 8. The Human Form in the Late Bronze Age Aegean 95
15. 9. Deciphering Gender in Minoan Dress 111
16. 10. Fear and Gender in Greek Art 124
17. 11. Mississippian Weavers 132
18. 12. Prehistoric and Ethnographic Pueblo Gender Roles: Continuity of Lifeways from the Eleventh to the Early Twentieth Century 139
19. 13. And They Said, Let Us Make Gods in Our Image: Gendered Ideologies in Ancient Mesopotamia 150
20. 14. Beyond Mother Earth and Father Sky: Sex and Gender in Ancient Southwestern Visual Arts 165
21. 15. Father Earth, Mother Sky: Ancient Egyptian Beliefs About Conception and Fertility 187
22. 16. Female Figurines in the European Upper Paleolithic: Politics and Bias in Archaeological Interpretation 202
23. References 215
24. Contributors 269
25. Index 271