Andrea -
 
try calling Steve Davis at UNC-Chapel Hill; he has done a couple of recent
projects that might be relevant
 
Paul Webb
 
> I am a graduate student seeking site reports of relevance to my
>thesis.  I have been researching gendered consumption patterns at the
>turn of the century.  To date, I have been surveying advertisements in
>magazines geared toward the white middle class.  I am investigating the
>potential of these ads to present emic expressions of norms and ideals
>linking specific goods with men and/or women.  I would like to compare
>the results of this survey with actual consumption behavior.
> In order to accomplish this, I am looking for reports on sites in the
>U.S. (falling between 1890 and 1910) where only one sex is primarily
>present, either male or female.  It is obviously difficult to establish
>the sex of the owner of an artifact.  I am therefore interested in sites
>where occupants and visitors of the opposite sex were, at least in
>theory, rigorously restricted.  I am thinking particularly of all-male
>or all-female universities, dorms, or boarding houses, but some of you
>may know of other resources that could also be useful.  The ads I am
>collecting, as I said, are geared pretty much exclusively to the white
>middle class, but it would be interesting to see whether or not the
>gendered consumption activities of other groups differ from or adhere to
>these norms as well.
> To date, I have had great difficulty in locating the kind of site
>reports that I am seeking.  The Virginia SHPO possesses very few
>relevant reports and travelling to other SHPO offices would be
>time-consuming, expensive, and potentially just as unrewarding and
>frustrating (shouldn't site reports be indexed by subject?).  Internet
>searches yield thousands of responses, but they seem to all refer to
>digs by universities, not digs at universities.  I have obtained a
>couple of leads from SHA newsletters from the last couple of years, but
>some of these excavations are still being written up.
> So, if any of you have read a report that might be useful to me or can
>direct me to someone who has excavated such a site, please let me know.
>I appreciate all the help I can get!
>
>Andrea Clark
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Paul A. Webb
 
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