Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations From Private to Public /

In many facets of Western culture, including archaeology, there remains a legacy of perceiving gender divisions as natural, innate, and biological in origin. Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public denaturalizes the gender dichotomy between domest...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4863-1
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Air of an Unwilling Slave
  • Domestic Production for Public Markets
  • Working from Home
  • Mina Miller Edison’s Progression from Private Gardens to Conservation and the Public Community Beautification
  • Time, Space, and Humiliation
  • Missionization and the Cult of Domesticity
  • Confusing Roles
  • Regulating Bodies in Colonial Cape Town
  • Ethnicity, Religion, and Sanitation after the Fall of the Granada Kingdom in Spain
  • The Measures and Materiality of Improvement in Ireland
  • Making Men and Women Blush
  • Reform or Racialization
  • How Men and Women Transformed American Culture by Making the Private Public
  • Between Archaeology, Domestic Technology and Swedish Modernity
  • Decently Dressed
  • Commentary.