Archaeology of Gender

' Wall has a clarity of style that is enjoyable to read as her flow carries the reader along toward learning something important and basic about how New York City grew and evolved from the eighteenth, through the nineteenth, and into the twentieth century, and also about the process of urbanization...She manages to integrate enjoyably the elements of history and archaeology toward understanding process-a major goal of historical archaeology...Along the way she provides us with a better appreciation of the pivotal role women have played in this process.' From the Foreword by Stanley South, University of South Carolina

• 1 • Introduction.- 2 • The Separation of the Home and the Workplace.- 3 • The Changing Social Landscape of the City.- Plates • The Changing Face of the City.- 4 • Changing Household Composition.- 5 • The Ritualization of Family Meals I.- 6 • The Ritualization of Family Meals II.- 7 • Conclusion.- Appendix A • The Documentary Data.- The Nature of the Samples.- Organizing the Data.- The Division of the Samples into “Classes”.- Notes.- Appendix B • The Data on the Separation of the Home and the Workplace.- Note.- Appendix C • The Geographical Data.- Appendix D • The Data on Household Composition.- Appendix E • The Archaeological Data.- Choosing the Archaeological Assemblages.- Dating the Archaeological Assemblages.- Ascribing the Archaeological Assemblages to Particular Households.- Counting the Vessels.- The Archaeological Data.- Sampling Problems.- Notes.- References.- Tables and Figures.