Table Of ContentContributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
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Historical and
Archaeological Perspectives
on Gender Transformations
From Private to Public
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Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan
USA
Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
USA
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Author Biographies
Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh is an associate professor of archaeology in the
Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her
research interest focuses on gender. She has written a monograph on gender con-
structions in the Scandinavian Viking Age and several articles on Viking Age mate-
rial culture. She also does research in the historiography of archaeology and is about
to fi nish a biography on the archaeologist and feminist Hanna Rydh.
Stacey Lynn Camp is an assistant professor at the University of Idaho in the
Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She is interested in the archaeology of
the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Western United States. Her current
research involves the archaeology of a World War II Japanese American internment
camp outside of Kooskia, Idaho.
Kim Christensen received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of
California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on historical archaeology, reform move-
ments, feminist and practice theories, activism, the household, public archaeology,
and community research collaboration.
Joyce M. Clements is an independent researcher and Adjunct Faculty at Salve
Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. Her research interests include New
England historical archaeology and ethnohistory and women’s lives in historical
and cross-cultural perspectives.
Annie Gray is an honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool. Her
research centers on food and dining in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
speci fi cally looking at questions of agency, cause and effect. She also works as a
consultant on historic food and dining, including the interpretation of sites to the
public. She has a keen interest in experimental archaeology, arising from her leader-
ship of a team of costumed interpreters working in a Victorian service wing as
cooks and kitchen maids.
Shannon M. Jackson is an associate professor of anthropology and the anthropology
program coordinator at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She has been con-
ducting ethnographic and archival research in South Africa since 1989, focusing on
race, embodiment, and Cape Colonial architecture. She continues to write about
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South Africa as well as teach and conduct research on technology, embodiment, and
the built environment.
Hadley Kruczek-Aaron (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is an assistant professor of
anthropology at the State University of New York at Potsdam. She specializes in the
archaeology of religion, reform, and social inequality in the nineteenth century. Her
current research project focuses on a mid-nineteenth-century land reform experi-
ment that brought hundreds of African Americans to the Adirondack Mountains of
New York State.
Angela Middleton is a consultant archaeologist and an honorary research fellow in
the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Otago,
New Zealand. Her work in southern and northern New Zealand has led to an explo-
ration of the early engagement between Maori (New Zealand’s indigenous people)
and Pakeha (European) and to an understanding of early Pakeha settlement. Angela
Middleton’s work has been concerned more particularly with an examination of the
archaeology of missionization in Aotearoa/New Zealand as well as the international
comparative context of missionization.
Carol A. Nickolai is an adjunct professor of anthropology and geography at the
Community College of Philadelphia. She is interested in changing rural and semi-
rural landscapes and in both conformity and resistance to the rules, roles, and rights
of women in the nineteenth-century Midwest. Her research has been published in
Historical Archaeology and the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
Mary Praetzellis is the associate director at the Anthropological Studies Center,
Sonoma State University. She works in cultural resources management and believes
that archaeology should contribute to current social and political debates. Mary
Praetzellis is a mother to two children; they are her most prized accomplishment
and the reason why she feels that early childhood education is so important—past
and particularly present.
Ieva Reklaityte , B.A., in Archaeology at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania, and
Ph.D. (2010) in History, University of Saragossa, Spain. Her publications focus on
archaeology of medieval Spain, principally on the urban environment of
Al-Andalus.
Deb Rotman is the Director of the Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement
at the University of Notre Dame. She also teaches in the Department of Anthropology.
Her research includes transnational analyses of Irish immigrant experiences to the
USA in the nineteenth century. She is particularly interested in how gender articu-
lates with other social relations (such as class, ethnicity, and sexuality) and the ways
in which those intersections shape lived experience.
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 fi rst two symposia on gender research in historical
archaeology at the Chacmool Conference and the Society for Historical Archaeology
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Conference in 1989 and 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.
Anne E. Yentsch received her Ph.D. in anthropology at Brown University, Providence,
RI. She received the fi rst James Marston Fitch Award for work on the built environ-
ment in 1990 and has written extensively about garden archaeology. She learned about
Mina Miller Edison and her intriguing life while writing a history of the landscape at
the Edison-Ford Estates in Fort Myers, Florida, in 2001–2002 and expanded this with
further research in the Chautauqua archives. The “Art and Mystery of Historical
Archaeology: Essays in Honor of James Deetz” was coedited by Yentsch and Mary C.
Beaudry, and she is the author of A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves: a Study in
Historical Archaeology. Dr. Yentsch retired from teaching in 2008.
Contents
1 Introduction to Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public......................... 1
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood and Stacey Lynn Camp
Part I The Private Is Political: The Public Sphere Inside
the Domestic Sphere of the Home
2 ‘The Proud Air of an Unwilling Slave’: Tea, Women
and Domesticity, c.1700–1900 ............................................................... 23
Annie Gray
3 Domestic Production for Public Markets: The Arts and Crafts
Movement in Deerfield, Massachusetts, c.1850–c.1911 ...................... 45
Deborah L. Rotman
4 Troubling the Domestic Sphere: Women Reformers and the
Changing Place of the Home in the United States, 1854–1939 .......... 63
Kim Christensen
Part II How External Colonization Made Domestic, Intimate,
and Bodily Affairs Public
5 Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and Sanitation After the Fall
of the Muslim Granada Kingdom in Medieval Spain ......................... 87
Ieva Reklaityte
6 Intimate Matters in Public Encounters: Massachusetts Praying
Indian Communities and Colonialism in the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries ...................................................................... 105
Joyce M. Clements
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7 Reforming Bodies: Self-Governance, Anxiety, and Cape
Colonial Architecture in South Africa, 1665–1860 ............................. 129
Shannon M. Jackson
8 Missionization and the Cult of Domesticity, 1769–1850:
Local Investigation of a Global Process ............................................... 149
Angela Middleton
Part III Transformations of Domestic and Private Bodily Matters
into Public Concerns and Organizations
9 Western Gender Transformations from the Eighteenth Century
to the Early Twentieth Century: Combining the Domestic
and Public Spheres ................................................................................. 173
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
10 Decently Dressed: Women’s Fashion and Dress Reform
in the Nineteenth Century United States ............................................. 215
Carol A. Nickolai
11 Mina Miller Edison, Education, Social Reform, and the
Permeable Boundaries of Domestic Space, 1886–1940 ....................... 231
Anne E. Yentsch
12 Ethical Practice and Material Ethics: Domestic Technology
and Swedish Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century,
Exemplified from the Life of Hanna Rydh .......................................... 275
Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh
Part IV Internal Colonialism: Public Reform of Domestic
Material Practices
13 Making Men and Women Blush: Masculinity, Femininity,
and Reform in Nineteenth-Century Central New York ..................... 307
Hadley Kruczek-Aaron
14 Sisters Across the Bay: Archaeology and the Influence
of Two Late Nineteenth-Century Free Kindergartens
in Northern California ........................................................................... 337
Mary Praetzellis
15 Reform to Repatriation: Gendering an Americanization
Movement in Early Twentieth-Century California............................. 363
Stacey Lynn Camp
