Choice Flowers and Well-Ordered Tables: Struggling Over Gender in a Nineteenth-Century Household Export

@article{citeulike:5051027, abstract = {Historical archaeologists have generally considered households as isolated,bounded entities, and not as sets of social relations. Consequently, the household has gone unrecognized as an arena of struggle. Analysis of documents associated with the household of nineteenth-century reformer Gerrit Smith challenges this approach. At his Peterboro, New York estate, a struggle ensued between family members because of conflicting ideologies of self-presentation, and between worker and employer on account of the period's shifting gender ideology. In order to access the meanings of objects excavated, the material remains associated with the Smith household must be considered in light of these struggles.}, author = {Kruczek-Aaron, Hadley}, citeulike-article-id = {5051027}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1020333103453}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/n27n746887h44771}, doi = {10.1023/A:1020333103453}, journal = {International Journal of Historical Archaeology}, keywords = {19c, feminist, gender, household}, month = {September}, number = {3}, pages = {173--185}, posted-at = {2009-07-05 03:16:01}, priority = {4}, title = {Choice Flowers and Well-Ordered Tables: Struggling Over Gender in a Nineteenth-Century Household}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1020333103453}, volume = {6}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5051027 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5051027 N2 - Historical archaeologists have generally considered households as isolated,bounded entities, and not as sets of social relations. Consequently, the household has gone unrecognized as an arena of struggle. Analysis of documents associated with the household of nineteenth-century reformer Gerrit Smith challenges this approach. At his Peterboro, New York estate, a struggle ensued between family members because of conflicting ideologies of self-presentation, and between worker and employer on account of the period's shifting gender ideology. In order to access the meanings of objects excavated, the material remains associated with the Smith household must be considered in light of these struggles. IS - 3 JF - International Journal of Historical Archaeology EP - 185 TI - Choice Flowers and Well-Ordered Tables: Struggling Over Gender in a Nineteenth-Century Household VL - 6 SP - 173 KW - 19c KW - feminist KW - gender KW - household AU - Kruczek-Aaron, Hadley PY - 2002/09/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1020333103453 ER -