Format:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 430 p. 66 illus., 16 illus. in color)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781461448624
Series Statement:
Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Content:
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 cont
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Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations; Author Biographies; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction to Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public; Book Purpose; Book Themes; Diversity and Change; Materiality of Sex/Gender Systems; Creative Tensions; Colonization and Colonialism; Book Organization; Reference s; Part I: The Private Is Political: The Public Sphere Inside the Domestic Sphere of the Home; Chapter 2: 'The Proud Air of an Unwilling Slave': Tea, Women and Domesticity, c.1700-1900; Introduction
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BackgroundGendering Tea, 1650-1800; Effeminate Sippers Fight Back; Tea and Sociability, 1800-1850; Afternoon Tea; Private to Public, 1850-1900; The Domestic in the City; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Domestic Production for Public Markets: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Deer fi eld, Massachusetts, c.1850-c.1911; Introduction; Gendered Divisions of Labor in a Rural Agricultural Economy; Changing Social Relations in Deer fi eld; Craft Production and Reimagining Gender; Conclusion; References
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Chapter 4: Troubling the Domestic Sphere: Women Reformers and the Changing Place of the Home in the United States, 1854-1939Introduction; "Domestic Reform" and "Separate Spheres": What Do We Mean?; Case Study: Matilda Joslyn Gage; Archaeology at the Gage House; Material Meanings: The Varied Uses of Material Culture in the Victorian Home; Case Study: May Cheney; Archaeology at the Cheney House; Material Meanings: Household Objects and Domestic Reform; Conclusions: Blurring the Lines; References; Part II: How External Colonization Made Domestic, Intimate, and Bodily Affairs Public
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Chapter 5: Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and Sanitation After the Fall of the Muslim Granada Kingdom in Medieval SpainIntroductory Notes; Urban Reforms; Enlargement of the Streets; Alterations of Domestic Structures; Modi fi cations of Public Edi fi ces; The Case of Public Baths; Final Notes; References; Chapter 6: Intimate Matters in Public Encounters: Massachusetts Praying Indian Communities and Colonialism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Introduction; Theories; Radical and Anti-oppression Feminisms; Marxist Feminisms; Postcolonial Feminisms; Methods and Sources
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The Praying Town of PonkapoagIntimacy, Maternity, and Privacy; Marriage and Sexual Intimacy; Childbirth; Some Material Correlates of Colonization: Death and Burial Practices; References; Chapter 7: Reforming Bodies: Self-Governance, Anxiety, and Cape Colonial Architecture in South Africa, 1665-1860; Self-Governing Cape Town; Structure and Function in Architecture; Conclusion: Bodies and Boundaries in Transition; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Missionization and the Cult of Domesticity, 1769-1850: Local Investigation of a Global Process; The Cult of Domesticity and the Church Missionary Society
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Te Puna: The New Zealand Mission
Additional Edition:
9781461448631
Additional Edition:
Print version Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations : From Private to Public
Language:
English
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