Mothering and Archaeology : Past and Present Perspectives (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; Part 1: Mothering at Prehistoric/Protohistoric Sites; 2. Great Mothers, Motherhood and Ma’atic Principle in Ancient Egypt, An Afrocentric Analysis;3. Iron Age Motherhood as Social Institution and Lived Practice; 4. Of Mothers and Midwives in Postclassic Central Mexico; Part 2: Mothering at Historic Sites; 5. Materializations of Historical Transformations in Western Ideologies and Conceptualizations of Motherhood and Mothering Practices: from Private to Public 1650-1900s;
6. “Sometime Come the Mother. Sometime the Wolf”: Mothering Youth in the Midst of War in Nineteenth Century Yucatan; 7. Separation, Tension, Trauma: Exploring Mothering and Cultural Resilience at the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School; 8. The Materiality of Yearning: an Archaeology of Carceral Motherhood in 19th Century Van Diemen’s Land, Australia; Part 3 Mothering, Sexual Politics, and Archaeology; 9. Of Monks and Mothers: Using Archaeology to Gain Perspective and Foster Feminist Activism; 10. Archaeology and Motherhood in a Nordic Welfare State; 11. I’m too tired to come up with a clever title: Archaeology and Motherhood;12. Kids in the Trenches: Women as Mothers and Professionals in Archaeology; 13. A personal story of these Roles I play: Site Mama, Uncle/Dad, Mommy, and oh yes… and CRM Archaeologist; Part 4:?Commentary; 14. Commentary: Feminist Theories, Mothering and Archaeology