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Title Historical and archaeological perspectives on gender transformations : from private to public / edited by Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
Published New York, NY : Springer, ©2013

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Series Contributions to global historical archaeology, 1574-0439
Contributions to global historical archaeology.
Contents The Private is Political: The Public Sphere inside the Domestic Sphere of the Home -- 'The Proud Air of an Unwilling Slave': Tea, Women and Domesticity, c.1700-1900 / Annie Gray -- Domestic Production for Public Markets: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Deerfield, Massachusetts, c.1850-c.1911 / Deborah L. Rotman -- Troubling the Domestic Sphere: Women Reformers and the Changing Place of the Home in the United States, 1854-1939 / Kim Christensen -- How External Colonization made Domestic, Intimate, and Bodily Affairs Public -- Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and Sanitation After the Fall of the Muslim Granada Kingdom in Medieval Spain / Ieva Reklaityte -- Intimate Matters in Public Encounters: Massachusetts Praying Indian Communities and Colonialism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Joyce M. Clements -- Reforming Bodies: Self-Governance, Anxiety, and Cape Colonial Architecture in South Africa, 1665-1860 / Shannon M. Jackson -- Missionization and the Cult of Domesticity, 1769-1850: Local Investigation of a Global Process / Angela Middleton -- Transformations of Domestic and Private Bodily Matters into Public Concerns and Organizations -- Western Gender Transformations from the Eighteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century: Combining the Domestic and Public Spheres / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood -- Decently Dressed: Women's Fashion and Dress Reform in the Nineteenth Century United States / Carol A. Nickolai -- Mina Miller Edison, Education, Social Reform, and the Permeable Boundaries of Domestic Space, 1886-1940 / Anne E. Yentsch -- Ethical Practice and Material Ethics: Domestic Technology and Swedish Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century, Exemplified from the Life of Hanna Rydh / Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh -- Internal Colonialism: Public Reform of Domestic Material Practices -- Making Men and Women Blush: Masculinity, Femininity, and Reform in Nineteenth-Century Central New York / Hadley Kruczek-Aaron -- Sisters Across the Bay: Archaeology and the Influence of Two Late Nineteenth-Century Free Kindergartens in Northern California / Mary Praetzellis -- Reform to Repatriation: Gendering an Americanization Movement in Early Twentieth-Century California / Stacey Lynn Camp -- Commentary -- Commentary: How Feminist Theories Increase Our Understanding of Processes of Gender Transformation / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
Summary In many facets of Western culture, including archaeology, there remains a legacy of perceiving gender divisions as natural, innate, and biological in origin. This belief follows that men are naturally pre-disposed to public, intellectual pursuits, while women are innately designed to care for the home and take care of children. In the interpretation of material culture, accepted notions of gender roles are often applied to new findings: the dichotomy between the domestic sphere of women and the public sphere of men can color interpretations of new materials. In this innovative volume, the contributors focus explicitly on analyzing the materiality of historic changes in the domestic sphere around the world. Combining a global scope with great temporal depth, chapters in the volume explore how gender ideologies, identities, relationships, power dynamics, and practices were materially changed in the past, thus showing how they could be changed in the future
Analysis Social sciences
Archaeology
Developmental psychology
Gender Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Archaeology and history.
Feminist archaeology.
historical archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Archaeology and history
Feminist archaeology
Form Electronic book
Author Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M.
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