Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations

Introduction.- The Air of an Unwilling Slave.- Domestic Production for Public Markets.- Working from Home.- Mina Miller Edison’s Progression from Private Gardens to Conservation and the Public Community Beautification.- Time, Space, and Humiliation.- Missionization and the Cult of Domesticity.- Confusing Roles.- Regulating Bodies in Colonial Cape Town.- Ethnicity, Religion, and Sanitation after the Fall of the Granada Kingdom in Spain.- The Measures and Materiality of Improvement in Ireland.- Making Men and Women Blush.- Reform or Racialization.- How Men and Women Transformed American Culture by Making the Private Public.- Between Archaeology, Domestic Technology and Swedish Modernity.- Decently Dressed.- Commentary.