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

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction to Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
‘The Proud Air of an Unwilling Slave’: Tea, Women and Domesticity, c.1700–1900....Pages 23-43
Domestic Production for Public Markets: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Deerfield, Massachusetts, c.1850–c.1911....Pages 45-62
Troubling the Domestic Sphere: Women Reformers and the Changing Place of the Home in the United States, 1854–1939....Pages 63-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and Sanitation After the Fall of the Muslim Granada Kingdom in Medieval Spain....Pages 87-103
Intimate Matters in Public Encounters: Massachusetts Praying Indian Communities and Colonialism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries....Pages 105-128
Reforming Bodies: Self-Governance, Anxiety, and Cape Colonial Architecture in South Africa, 1665–1860....Pages 129-147
Missionization and the Cult of Domesticity, 1769–1850: Local Investigation of a Global Process....Pages 149-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Western Gender Transformations from the Eighteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century: Combining the Domestic and Public Spheres....Pages 173-214
Decently Dressed: Women’s Fashion and Dress Reform in the Nineteenth Century United States....Pages 215-229
Mina Miller Edison, Education, Social Reform, and the Permeable Boundaries of Domestic Space, 1886–1940....Pages 231-274
Ethical Practice and Material Ethics: Domestic Technology and Swedish Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century, Exemplified from the Life of Hanna Rydh....Pages 275-303
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Making Men and Women Blush: Masculinity, Femininity, and Reform in Nineteenth-Century Central New York....Pages 307-336
Sisters Across the Bay: Archaeology and the Influence of Two Late Nineteenth-Century Free Kindergartens in Northern California....Pages 337-362
Reform to Repatriation: Gendering an Americanization Movement in Early Twentieth-Century California....Pages 363-388
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
Commentary: How Feminist Theories Increase Our Understanding of Processes of Gender Transformation....Pages 391-423
Back Matter....Pages 425-430