Abstract
This chapter contributes to the increasing globalization of research in historical archaeology by advancing our understanding of the great diversity, global scope, and long temporal development of domestic reform movements that arguably created some of the largest ideological and cultural transformations in Western patriarchy, from the second half of the eighteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. Domestic reform movements grew through national and international organizations and networks connecting reformers in Europe, America, and Australasia (Coleman 1987). Previous studies have usually focused on either America or England, a century or less, and one or a few social reform movements. The large temporal and geographic scope of the overview provided in this short chapter requires generalizations, but they have been made by carefully combing several sources.
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Spencer-Wood, S.M. (2013). Western Gender Transformations from the Eighteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century: Combining the Domestic and Public Spheres. In: Spencer-Wood, S. (eds) Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4863-1_9
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