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Notes on the Contributors Introduction L.Hurcombe PART ONE: QUESTIONING PERSPECTIVES The Material Culture of the Homosexual Male: A Case for Archaeological Exploration K.Matthews Sisters are Doing it for Themselves? Gender, Feminism and Australian (Aboriginal) Archaeology S.Colley A Sexist Present, a Human-less Past: Museum Archaeology in Greece D.Kokkinidou & M.Nikolaidou Gender: Enabling Perspective or Politically Correct Term? An Analysis of How Gender and Material Culture are Viewed by 1990s Academia M.Baker PART TWO: SOCIAL CONTEXTS FOR CRAFTS, TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION Gender and Craft Innovation: Proposal of a Model L.Senior Time, Skill and Craft Specialisation as Gender Relations L.Hurcombe Time, Gender and Production: A Critical Evaluation of Archaeological Time Concepts C.B.Damm Who Lights the Fire? Gender and the Energy of Production J.Moore PART THREE: ARTEFACTS AND THEIR SOCIAL SETTINGS Long Handled Weaving Combs: Problems in Determining the Gender of Tool-maker and Tool-user T.Tuohy The Use of Space in a Gender Study of Two South African Stone Age Sites L.Wadley Gender, Material Culture, Ritual and Gender System: A Prehistoric Example Based on Sickles C.Johnsson, K.Ross & S.Welinder Lithic Functional Analysis as a Means of Studying Gender and Material Culture in Prehistory L.Owen PART FOUR: DIET, BODIES AND BURIALS Fat is a Feminist Issue: On Ideology, Diet and Health in Hunter-gathering Societies M.Zvelebil The Anthropology and Archaeology of Mesolithic Gender in the Western Baltic C.Meiklejohn, E.B.Petersen & V.Alexandersen The Gendering of Children in the Early Bronze Age Cemetery at Mokrin E.Rega Classic Maya Diet and Gender Relationships J.Gerry & M.Chesson Index

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