ABSTRACT
I frame this chapter through a close historical and anthropological reading of two terms - “feminist” and “mapping” - in the context of archaeology. How do we understand the relationship between gender and feminist archaeology, three decades after the initial popularization of gender archaeology, particularly in the Anglo-American context? What might mapping in archaeological projects entail today, specifically in terms of technologies, bodies, and specialized trained practices? I then unite the two terms and consider what ‘feminist mapping’, particularly in the context of ‘critical cartography’, may look like in the practice of archaeology in the twenty-first century. I argue that a feminist mapping project is consciously situated at the intersection of historical legacies and embodied positionalities. Feminist mapping has to be transparent about the historical and political subject positions of all participants, the field itself, and the products of the research.
