Contents
Contributors
Preface
I. Introduction
1. Through the Lens of Gender: Archaeology, Inequality, and Those "of Little Note" - Elizabeth M. Scott
II. Native American and African American Communities
2. Cloth, Clothing, and Related Paraphernalia: A Key to Gender Visibility in the Archaeological Record of Russian America - Louise M. Jackson
3. "We Took Care of Each Other Like Families Were Meant To": Gender, Social Organization, and Wage Labor Among the Apache at Roosevelt
4. The House of the Black Burghardts: An Investigation of Race, Gender, and Class at the W. E. B. DuBois Boyhood Homesite - Nancy Ladd Muller
III. All-Male and Predominantly Male Communities
5. "With Manly Courage": Reading the Construction of Gender in a Nineteenth-Century Religious Community - Elizabeth Kryder-Reid
6. The Identification of Gender at Northern Military Sites of the Late Eighteenth Century - David R. Starbuck
7. Class, Gender Strategies, and Material Culture in the Mining West - Donald L. Hardesty
IV. Working Women in Urban Communities
8. Mrs. Starr's Profession - Donna J. Seifert
9. Diversity and Nineteenth-Century Domestic Reform: Relationships Among Classes and Ethnic Groups - Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
Index