ABSTRACT
Since the explosion of archaeological literature on gender and feminism in the early 1990s (eg, Bacus et al 1993), these approaches have significantly transformed many of the interpretative and explanatory avenues of research in the Anglo-American and Scandinavian archaeological traditions. They have highlighted the biases and inequalities in the every-day practices of both academic and field archaeology and contested many of the taken-for-granted assumptions upon which the discipline is based. Some 10 or so years on from this burst of theoretical, practical, and pedagogical research, the potential enhancements offered to the business of being an archaeologist have yet to be universally recognised across all archaeologies the world over (see, eg, Whitehouse 1998).
