2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11759-011-9170-z
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A Teapot, a House, or Both? The Material Possessions of Irish Women’s California Assemblages

Abstract: ________________________________________________________________Using a woman-centered approach, artifact assemblages and background documents are analyzed to discern gender behavior and ethnic variations in women's work-cooking, dining, housecleaning-in more frivolous areas-flowers, pets, girls' toys-and personal adornment. Issues of gender bias are discussed. The data show that negative evidence (absence vs. presence) is, at times, misleading and must be carefully considered. Detailed study of the artifacts … Show more

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“…Coupling this analysis with social history, he argues that changes in ceramic and glass forms over time represent adoption of U.S. middle‐class sensibilities. The maintenance of religious symbols and practices—related to Catholicism—and social solidarities allowed Irish Americans to reassert their identity in new contexts (see also Yenstch 2011 for a woman‐centered approach to an Irish immigrant assemblage in Oakland, California). In the more recent past, Stacey Camp (2011) argues that Mexican Americans were able to negotiate their own identity and implicit meanings of citizenship through careful and strategic practices of consumption.…”
Section: Identity: Subject Household and Communitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Coupling this analysis with social history, he argues that changes in ceramic and glass forms over time represent adoption of U.S. middle‐class sensibilities. The maintenance of religious symbols and practices—related to Catholicism—and social solidarities allowed Irish Americans to reassert their identity in new contexts (see also Yenstch 2011 for a woman‐centered approach to an Irish immigrant assemblage in Oakland, California). In the more recent past, Stacey Camp (2011) argues that Mexican Americans were able to negotiate their own identity and implicit meanings of citizenship through careful and strategic practices of consumption.…”
Section: Identity: Subject Household and Communitymentioning
confidence: 99%