Introduction, Tracy L. Sweely; Part 1 Exploring power through gender; Chapter 1 A resort to subtler contrivances, Alice B. Kehoe; Chapter 2 Egalitarianism, equality, and equitable power, Susan Kent; Chapter 3 Women leaders in native North American societies, Ruth Trocolli; Chapter 4 Gender, power, and heterarchy in middle-level societies, Janet E. Levy; Part 2 Ideology and the negotiation of power; Chapter 5 Writing on the face of the moon, Carolyn E. Tate; Chapter 6 The metamorphosis of Xochiquetzal, Geoffrey G. McCafferty, Sharisse D. McCafferty; Part 3 Manifesting power through material culture; Chapter 7 Artelsand identities, Katharine Woodhouse-Beyer; Chapter 8 Gender, space, people, and power at Ceren, E1 Salvador, Tracy L. Sweely; Part 4 Discussions; Chapter 9 Gendering power, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood; Chapter 10 Rethinking gender and power, Sarah Milledge Nelson; Chapter 11 Repudiating witchcraft, K. Anne Pyburn;