Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments Introductory note Abbreviations A. OPENING LECTURE Liv Helga DOMMASNES Women in archaeology in Norway: twenty years of gendered archaeological practice and some thoughts about changes to come B. 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 John YOUNGER) Some unpublished studies by Paul Rehak on gender in Aegean art Alexandra ALEXANDRI Envisioning gender in Aegean prehistory Dimitra KOKKINIDOU and Marianna NIKOLAIDOU Feminism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-due C. WORLDS OF WOMEN, MEN AND BEYOND: GENDER IDENTITIES, ROLES, INTERACTIONS, SYMBOLISMS Cyprus Diane BOLGER Beyond male/female: recent approaches to gender in Cypriot prehistory Giorgos VAVOURANAKIS A "speared Aphrodite" from Bronze Age Audemou, Cyprus Jordan Julia MULLER-CLEMM Cemetery A of Tell el-Mazar, Jordan. A gender-critical relecture Spain 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, identities Aegean and the Balkans Christina MARANGOU Gendered/sexed and sexless beings in prehistory: readings of the invisible gender Aegean 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 ritual D. 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 art E. 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 art F. 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 Crete "of 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.