Oops, my apologies for accidentally emailing to the list.
regards,
suzanne

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Suzanne Spencer-Wood
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> Hello James and Kevin, below is my paper abstract. Interested?
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> Domestic architecture, community landscapes, and the archaeology of
> domestic violence
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> By Suzanne Spencer-Wood
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> 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:
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>> 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
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>> Kevin Fogle
>> University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)
>>
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