Dear Suzanne

I am the social media liaison on the SHA 2013 committee, and have been promoting the conference on the SHA blog, amongst other places. I am putting together a blog post featuring the session proposals that are doing the rounds at the moment - could I put yours up on the blog? That will then provide a permanent place for potential speakers to look at which sessions are being proposed.

Looking forward to meeting you in Leicester!

Best wishes 
Emma 
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Suzanne Spencer-Wood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Histarchers, For the SHA in Leicester, UK, Jan. 9-12 I'm organizing a symposium on Gendering Consumer Choice. If you would like to give a paper in the session please email me your paper title and abstract. regards, suzanne Symposium abstract: Gendering Consumer Choice Chapters in the 1987 edited volume Consumer Choice in Historical Archaeology, related consumption to households, family size, composition, life cycle, and occupations and probate inventories of women as well as men. However, the consumer choice framework was not explicitly gendered. Consumer choice is gendered in many ways, such as who selects consumer goods for a household and who consumes goods. Many consumer goods are manufactured specifically for one gender or another, such as clothing, cosmetics, perfume, jewelry, hats, shoes, watches, scissors, chairs, machines, etc. Papers in this symposium explicitly theorize and analyze a variety of relationships between gender and consumer choice.