Overview
- 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)
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The Private is Political: The Public Sphere inside the Domestic Sphere of the Home
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How External Colonization made Domestic, Intimate, and Bodily Affairs Public
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Transformations of Domestic and Private Bodily Matters into Public Concerns and Organizations
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Internal Colonialism: Public Reform of Domestic Material Practices
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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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