Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductory noteAbbreviationsA. OPENING LECTURE- Liv Helga DOMMASNES , Women in archaeology in Norway : twenty years of gendered archaeological practice and some thoughts about changes to comeB. PLENARY SESSION A TRIBUTE TO PAUL REHAK: PAST AND PRESENT GENDER ISSUES, A STATE OF ART- Paul REHAK (ed. John YOUNGER), Some unpublished studies by Paul Rehak on gender in Aegean art- Alexandra ALEXANDRI, Envisioning gender in Aegean prehistory- Dimitra KOKKINIDOU and Marianna NIKOLAIDOU, Feminism and Greek archaeology: an encounter long over-dueC. WORLDS OF WOMEN, MEN AND BEYOND: GENDER IDENTITIES, ROLES, INTERACTIONS, SYMBOLISMSCyprus- Diane BOLGER, Beyond male/female: recent approaches to gender in Cypriot prehistory - Giorgos VAVOURANAKIS, A speared Aphrodite from Bronze Age Audemou, CyprusJordan - Julia MULLER-CLEMM, Cemetery A of Tell el-Mazar, Jordan. A gender-critical relectureSpain- Paloma GONZALEZ-MARCEN and Sandra MONTON-SUBIAS, Time, women, identity and maintenance activities. Death and life in the Argaric communities of southeast Iberia- Margarita SANCHEZ-ROMERO, Women in Bronze Age southeast Iberian peninsula : daily life, relationships, identitiesAegean and the Balkans - Christina MARANGOU, Gendered/sexed and sexless beings in prehistory: readings of the invisible genderAegean - Louise A. HITCHCOCK, Knossos is burning: gender bending the Minoan genius- Penelope J.P. McGEORGE, Gender meta-analysis of Late Bronze Age skeletal remains: the case of Tomb 2 in the Pylona cemetery on Rhodes - Barbara A. OLSEN, Was there unity in Mycenaean gender practices? The women of Pylos and Knossos in the Linear B tablets- Kim S. SHELTON, Who wears the horns? Gender choices in Mycenaean terracotta figurines- Alexander UCHITEL, The Minoan Linear A sign for woman: a tentative identification- Judith WEINGARTEN, The Zakro master and questions of gender- Marika ZEIMBEKI, Gender, kinship and material culture in Aegean Bronze Age ritualD. FORMATION OF PAST GENDER: COMING OF AGE, CHILDHOOD, WOMANHOOD, MOTHERHOOD- Francoise AUDOUZE and Frederic JANNY, Can we hope to identify children's activities in Upper Palaeolithic settlements?- Anne P. CHAPIN, Constructions of male youth and gender in Aegean art: the evidence from Late Bronze Age Crete and Thera- Katerina KOPAKA, Mothers in Aegean stratigraphies? The dawn of ever-continuing engendered life cycles- Maia POMADERE, Ou sont les meres ? Representations et realites de la maternite dans le monde egeen protohistorique- John G. YOUNGER, We are woman: girl, maid, matron in Aegean artE. READING AEGEAN GENDER: THROUGH WOMEN'S AND MEN'S EYES- Isabelle BRADFER-BURDET, Phedre ou la Goulue : l'antiquite travestie. Les femmes de l'Age du Bronze mises a nu par les archeologues du XXeme siecle- Gerald CADOGAN, Gender metaphors of social stratigraphy in pre-linear B Crete , or Is Minoan gynaecocracy (still) credible?- Lucy GOODISON, Gender, body and the Minoans: contemporary and prehistoric perceptions- Christine MORRIS, The iconography of the bared breast in Aegean Bronze Age artF. ENGENDERING AEGEAN FIELDWORK: THE CONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN ARCHAEOLOGISTS- Susan Heuck ALLEN, Excavating women: female pairings in early Aegean archaeology (1871-1918)- Anna Lucia D'AGATA, Women archaeologists and non-palatial Greece : a case-study from Creteof the hundred cities- Metaxia TSIPOPOULOU, Harriet Boyd's granddaughters: women directors of excavations and surveys in Crete at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century