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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Archaeology.; Developmental psychology.; Social Sciences.; Gender Studies.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4863-1

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Air of an Unwilling Slave
• Domestic Production for Public Markets
• Working from Home
• Mina Miller Edison<U+0019>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.