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Material culture, the substance of much archaeological research, has only recently been studied as evidence of gender relations. Case studies, drawn from many different periods and areas, develop concepts and theories as diverse as the social context of production and artefact use in the construction of food as a gendered social medium. The international contributors to this volume critique traditional approaches and consider feminist and non-heterosexual gender perspectives.

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MOIRA DONALD is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter. She has published on the history of the European socialist movement and on women's history in Britain and Russia. She is currently writing a book on the culture and material culture of the socialist movement as well as editing works on twentieth century revolutions and women, trade and business in history. Her work on gender and material culture has focused on gendered possession of clocks, watches, on which she has included a paper in the present volume. LINDA HURCOMBE is Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Exeter. Her research interests focus on stone tools from a variety of contexts and periods but expand to general issues of archaeological material culture and its interpretation. She has published both in these fields and in the perceptions of gender issues within the discipline and is currently preparing a book on the transformation of materials into material culture.

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