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Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives

Part of the Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-89668-7

ISBN: 978-0-387-89667-0

Publisher: Springer New York - Springer Journals

Jun 17, 2009

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Gender Ideologies as Complex Social Forces

Rotman, Deborah

Pages: 1 –10

[To say that gendered social relations are complex would be to profoundly understate the dynamism of the human experience. The ways in which individuals understand their roles as gendered beings and their relationships to other gendered beings is constantly pushed and pulled by forces both...
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Theoretical Framework for Understanding Gender Roles and Relations

Rotman, Deborah

Pages: 11 –39

[Gendered social relations were inextricably linked to class, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and identity, among innumerable other social, cultural, economic, and political forces that both shaped and were shaped by the lived experiences of residents in Deerfield and throughout the United States. In...
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The Village, Families, and Archaeological Assemblages in this Study

Rotman, Deborah

Pages: 41 –80

[Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, residents of Deerfield, MA experienced the social, economic, and political transformations that emerged with the new republic. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries were also eras of change, marked by the effects of intensified agricultural production...
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Gendered Landscapes in Historic Deerfield

Rotman, Deborah

Pages: 81 –121

[Cultural landscapes are dynamic social spaces. In this chapter, I define cultural landscapes and provide comparative examples of landscape studies. Since individual homelots are the foci of this study, domestic spaces and residential architecture are a particular emphasis. I theoretically...
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Complex Intersection of Social Relations and the Material World

Rotman, Deborah

Pages: 123 –165

[A separation of public and private spheres, at least in idealized forms, was an important aspect of domesticity. Elements of separation were extant in a variety of gender ideals, however, during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Each of these ideologies placed at least some...
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Critical Analyses of Separate Spheres and the Role of Life Cycle in Shaping the Material World

Rotman, Deborah

Pages: 167 –189

[Throughout the various analyses of the material world in Deerfield – architectural changes as well as ceramic tea and tablewares – two recurring themes emerged. The first was that gender separation was extant in virtually every ideology shaping gendered social relations from the mid-eighteenth...
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Through a Kaleidoscope: Gendered Lives in Deerfield, MA

Rotman, Deborah

Pages: 191 –207

[The metaphor of a kaleidoscope characterizes the complex and ever-changing meaning and practice of gendered social relations. Gender interacts with a myriad of other social prisms – including, but not limited to, competing gender ideologies, socioeconomic class, political agendas, and...

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