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Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood⁰

Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
1. Harvard University, Cambridge MA, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Oakland University, Rochester MI and Pea, Rochester, USA
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International scope studies changes in the domestic sphere on a global level
Challenges previously-held beliefs about historical gender roles
Provides methodology for conducting similar studies on material culture

Part of the book series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology (CGHA)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xiv

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Introduction to Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public
- Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, Stacey Lynn Camp
Pages 1-20
The Private Is Political: The Public Sphere Inside the Domestic Sphere of the Home
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 21-21
  
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The Private is Political: The Public Sphere inside the Domestic Sphere of the Home
1. ‘The Proud Air of an Unwilling Slave’: Tea, Women and Domesticity, c.1700–1900
  
  Annie Gray
  
  Pages 23-43
2. Domestic Production for Public Markets: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Deerfield, Massachusetts, c.1850–c.1911
  
  Deborah L. Rotman
  
  Pages 45-62
3. Troubling the Domestic Sphere: Women Reformers and the Changing Place of the Home in the United States, 1854–1939
  
  Kim Christensen
  
  Pages 63-83
How External Colonization Made Domestic, Intimate, and Bodily Affairs Public
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 85-85
  
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How External Colonization made Domestic, Intimate, and Bodily Affairs Public
1. Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and Sanitation After the Fall of the Muslim Granada Kingdom in Medieval Spain
  
  Ieva Reklaityte
  
  Pages 87-103
2. Intimate Matters in Public Encounters: Massachusetts Praying Indian Communities and Colonialism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  
  Joyce M. Clements
  
  Pages 105-128
3. Reforming Bodies: Self-Governance, Anxiety, and Cape Colonial Architecture in South Africa, 1665–1860
  
  Shannon M. Jackson
  
  Pages 129-147
4. Missionization and the Cult of Domesticity, 1769–1850: Local Investigation of a Global Process
  
  Angela Middleton
  
  Pages 149-170
Transformations of Domestic and Private Bodily Matters into Public Concerns and Organizations
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 171-171
  
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2. Western Gender Transformations from the Eighteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century: Combining the Domestic and Public Spheres
  
  Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
  
  Pages 173-214
3. Decently Dressed: Women’s Fashion and Dress Reform in the Nineteenth Century United States
  
  Carol A. Nickolai
  
  Pages 215-229
4. Mina Miller Edison, Education, Social Reform, and the Permeable Boundaries of Domestic Space, 1886–1940
  
  Anne E. Yentsch
  
  Pages 231-274
5. 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
  
  Pages 275-303
Internal Colonialism: Public Reform of Domestic Material Practices
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 305-305
  
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Internal Colonialism: Public Reform of Domestic Material Practices
1. Making Men and Women Blush: Masculinity, Femininity, and Reform in Nineteenth-Century Central New York
  
  Hadley Kruczek-Aaron
  
  Pages 307-336
2. Sisters Across the Bay: Archaeology and the Influence of Two Late Nineteenth-Century Free Kindergartens in Northern California
  
  Mary Praetzellis
  
  Pages 337-362
3. Reform to Repatriation: Gendering an Americanization Movement in Early Twentieth-Century California
  
  Stacey Lynn Camp
  
  Pages 363-388

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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.

Editors and Affiliations

Harvard University, Cambridge MA, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Oakland University, Rochester MI and Pea, Rochester, USA

Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood

About the editor

Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood is a Professor in Anthropology at Oakland University and an Associate at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. She organized the first two symposia on gender research in historical archaeology at the Chacmool conference and the Society for Historical Archaeology conference in 1989, and subsequently published numerous book chapters, and articles in the following journals: Archaeologies, Historical Archaeology, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Northeast Historical Archaeology, and the Landscape Journal.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations
Book Subtitle: From Private to Public
Editors: Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
Series Title: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4863-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4862-4Published: 07 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8975-8Published: 28 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4863-1Published: 09 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1574-0439
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 430
Topics: Archaeology, Gender Studies

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

Front Matter

The Private Is Political: The Public Sphere Inside the Domestic Sphere of the Home

Front Matter

The Private is Political: The Public Sphere inside the Domestic Sphere of the Home

How External Colonization Made Domestic, Intimate, and Bodily Affairs Public

Front Matter

How External Colonization made Domestic, Intimate, and Bodily Affairs Public

Transformations of Domestic and Private Bodily Matters into Public Concerns and Organizations

Front Matter

Internal Colonialism: Public Reform of Domestic Material Practices

Front Matter

Internal Colonialism: Public Reform of Domestic Material Practices

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About this book

Editors and Affiliations

Harvard University, Cambridge MA, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Oakland University, Rochester MI and Pea, Rochester, USA

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