Hello James and Kevin, below is my paper abstract. Interested?

Domestic architecture, community landscapes, and the archaeology of
domestic violence

By Suzanne Spencer-Wood



Archaeologists have not analyzed material culture or landscapes for
evidence of domestic violence, which is broadly defined to include verbal
and physical abuse, including murder, as well as adultery. Second-wave
structuralist-feminist theory and radical feminist theory are applied to
analyze how domestic architecture and community landscapes can inhibit or
facilitate domestic violence.  This paper analyzes how temporal changes in
house construction, room arrangements, and arrangements of houses in
communities affected the ability of community members to monitor households
for domestic violence. The Massachusetts Bay Colony in America provides
documentary data concerning the importance of material arrangements to the
changing ability of community members to discover and accurately report on
domestic violence in private households. Changes in house construction and
room arrangements express changes in ideologies of privacy that are related
to changes in the landscapes of religious communities.

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:22 PM, James Nyman <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> We are organizing an household archaeology session entitled “Tearing Down
> Walls: The Architecture of Household Archaeology” for the 2013 Society for
> Historical Archaeology meeting in Leicester. The session seeks presenters
> who are using innovative household theory or methods. The following is a
> working abstract for the session:
>
> Household archeology is a methodological and theoretical approach to
> domestic sites that can address various research interests from demography
> and socioeconomic relationships to the use of space and the landscape
> approach. The goal of this session will be to bring together multiple
> viewpoints regarding the household as a unit of archaeological analysis. We
> hope to highlight recent developments with household archaeology that
> improve upon the ways that we traditionally conceptualize how households
> are made meaningful through activity and as centers for social
> relationships in the past. We seek a diversity of examples that span
> temporal and geographic space, and seek to highlight how households are
> connected to, and influence, multiple processes at the global and local
> levels.
>
>
> If this proposed session interests you, please send us an abstract by June
> 22 2012, or email prior to that date with ideas or questions.
>
> Thank you!
>
> James Nyman
> University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Kevin Fogle
> University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)
>