Hey Girl, I See You: Identifying Women Within Household Assemblages
Author(s): Cori Rich
Year: 2017
Summary
I was inspired by the work of Dr. Elizabeth Scott and her ability to shed light onto underrepresented, often invisible, groups of people. This paper looks into the shadows of our past in an attempt to better understand women of different ethnicities and classes. Using ceramic assemblages and women’s activity related materials, I examine how class and ethnicity can impact women’s visibility within the archaeological record. Analysis of this data shows distinct differences between women’s activities and visibility when comparing those of the upper class with those of the middle, and lower classes. However, parallels are seen in the assemblages of both the middle and lower classes. Don’t worry ladies, we see you.
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Hey Girl, I See You: Identifying Women Within Household Assemblages. Cori Rich. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435354)
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Keywords
General
class
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Ethnicity
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feminism
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
18th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 297