Janet D. Spector


Janet D. Spector was an American archaeologist. She is known for her contributions to the archaeology of gender and ethnoarchaeology. She is the author of What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village, a book which combines Spector's autobiography with the excavation of the Little Rapids site in Scott County, Minnesota and a fictional story of a young Dakota woman who lived in the village. While a professor at the University of Minnesota, Spector helped found the women's studies program at the university, and chaired the program from 1981 to 1984

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