ABSTRACT
The title of this contribution, as I am sure most readers will be aware, is an overt reference to what for me was an influential set of essays edited by Elizabeth Weed and Naomi Schor entitled Feminism meets Queer Theory and published in 1997. Although the relationship between queer theory and archaeology is not, and can never be, anything like that of feminism to queer theory, I think the inclusion of this chapter in this research companion does present an opportunity to be grasped. So, rather than choosing to connote ‘a staging of strangeness and unpredictability’ as Weed and Schor have done, I use this chapter to stage an introduction of the sexual politics of the past, or more accurately those of the past in the present, in an arena where the past often serves as little more than a handmaiden to the history of the West.
