ABSTRACT
Feminism has a distinct political agenda; its goal is to achieve social, economic, and political equality among the sexes. Engendered archaeologies emerged as an important arena of archaeological theorizing following the post-processual critique. Gender, like race, has been a difficult subject to broach archaeologically, not because it is difficult to study gender from archaeological traces. Archaeologies of sexuality look at how sexuality is perceived and marked on ancient landscapes, such as Fietosa's study of love and eroticism in ancient Pompey where she used inscriptions and graffiti on walls to understand sexual attitudes and practices. Woman protested the formal structures of Mardi Gras by forming their own krewes as early as 1917. Mardi Gras is a realm where gender protest is possible through participation in krewes. The same physical attributes of the Mardi Gras beads that led to bead inflation created the nudity dimension of the throwing game. Small and medium-sized beads recovered from the burials showed distinct pattering.
