There is a Sears house standing on Sapelo Island, Georgia.  It was put
together on the site of a late 18th/early 19th century plantation owned
by Edward Swarbreck, called "Chocolate."  Most of the island, including
Chocolate, is owned by the State of Georgia and managed by the Georgia
Dept of Natural Resources.  It's quite a beautiful setting.

Good luck,

Norma Harris
Univ of West Florida
Dept of Anthropology
Pensacola, FL
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Rotman, Deborah L. wrote:

>Dear Colleagues in Historical Archaeology ~
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>            A few months back, we queried the group for references
>pertaining to early 20th century domestic sites, specifically Sears
>houses.  We wish to make that appeal again.
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>            Also, we are curious to hear whether any of you have studied
>the material and spatial correlates of "the feminine mystique."  For
>those who may not know, this gender ideology emerged in the 1920s and
>1930s and, according to Ruth Schwartz Cowan, women were viewed as
>"purely domestic creatures, that the goal of each normal woman's life
>was the acquisition of a husband, a family and a home, that women who
>worked outside their homes did so only under duress or because they were
>'odd' (for which read 'ugly,' 'frustrated,' 'compulsive,' or 'single)
>and that this state of affairs was sanctioned by the tenets of religion,
>biology, psychology, and patriotism" (Cowan 1976:148).  So it had strong
>parallels to the cult of domesticity, but differed in some of the
>prescriptive details.
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>Cowan, Ruth Schwartz
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>1976     "Two washes in the morning and a bridge party at night:  The
>American housewife between the wars."  Women's Studies 3(2):147-172.
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>share!  Thank you!
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>Deborah L. Rotman, Ph.D., RPA
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>Assistant Professor
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>Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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>Purdue University
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>700 W. State Street; 316 Stone Hall
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>West Lafayette IN  47907-2059
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>Phone (765) 494-4683
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>Fax (765) 496-1476
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