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.