Romanization: A Feminist Critique

Revell, Louise

doi:10.16995/trac2009_1_10

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“…Recent research and revisions of early datasets (Maxfield 2002;Revell 2010;Vass 2010; Birley 2013; Greene 2015a; 2015b) are increasing our awareness of the role of women within the life of a military community. In this paper, I will propose spindle whorls as the signifiers of the spinning craft.…”

Section: Sexing the Spinning Craft In Military Contexts: An Overviewmentioning

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The Construction, Use, and Discard of Female Identities: Interpreting Spindle Whorls at Vindolanda and Corbridge

Alberti

2018

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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Spindle whorls are one of the most durable traces of the textile craft in the archaeological record. They can be found in copious quantities and diverse types in forts and extramural settlements on the Romano British northern frontier. The connection between spinning tools and female identity, although widely recognised and studied in the burial record, has seldom prompted in-depth observation of whorls and their characteristics, either individually or as assemblages, along the frontiers of the Empire. The following paper will explore how shape, size, decoration, and use wear marks on spindle whorls from Vindolanda and Corbridge can reveal insights into the practice of spinning. By analysing the distribution and physical properties of whorls in the northwestern quadrant of Vindolanda, an attempt will also be made to connect the spinning practice to the construction and performance of female identity.

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Section: Sexing the Spinning Craft In Military Contexts: An Overviewmentioning

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The Construction, Use, and Discard of Female Identities: Interpreting Spindle Whorls at Vindolanda and Corbridge

Alberti

2018

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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“…After the Roman conquest, although these may have developed into wider Romano-British identities, settlement and material culture evidence suggests this varied greatly. Many 'Roman' occupiers and settlers hailed from provinces across the empire, and urban and rural dwellers, soldiers and slaves, villa owners and tenant farmers had correspondingly varied identities, bodily dispositions and agencies due to structures of power, gender and class (Barrett 1997;Eckardt 2010;Gardner 2002;James 2001;Revell 2010;Woolf 1995).…”

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Foot-fall and Hoof-hit. Agencies, Movements, Materialities, and Identities; and Later Prehistoric and Romano-British Trackways

Chadwick¹

2016

CAJ

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In archaeological considerations of Iron Age and Romano-British landscapes, trackways are usually interpreted in purely normative terms, merely as means of getting from one settlement to another, or as functional features to assist with the herding of animals. In these somewhat static expositions, the role of trackways as places in themselves, and their long-term importance in constructions of social identity and memory, are often overlooked, as are the complex relationships between people and animals within the landscape. Recent theoretical ideas concerning relational agency and identity, materiality and movement have much to offer in terms of our archaeological understandings of these features. This paper explores the interpretative potential of such approaches using case studies of Iron Age and Romano-British trackways from Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. Integrating theories of identity, embodiment, materiality, relationality and practice highlights the sedentarism of previous explanations, and allows for much more nuanced accounts of highly dynamic, mobile meshworks, where agency resided in complex constraints and affordances between people, animals and the materiality of the lived-in landscape.

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“…'Women's place continues to be an important line of inqui ry for feminist Roman archaeology (e.g., Baker 2003;Revell 2010; see also Spencer-Wood 2006, 301).…”

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“…Pearce 2010; see also Cool 2011, 299-312. For further discussion, see Allasonjones 1995, 2009 27Whitehouse (1998) did not include any Roman studies because, she argued, few of the works from the 1990s are "ex plicitly archaeological studies" (1). There were no contribu tions from the classical world in Bacus et al (1993), let alone from Roman archaeology; see also Zarmati 1994.…”

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Characterizing Roman Artifacts to Investigate Gendered Practices in Contexts Without Sexed Bodies

Allison

2015

American Journal of Archaeology

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This article concerns the characterization of Roman artifacts so that they can play a greater role in gendered approaches to Roman sites-sites that constitute lived spaces but lack actual references to sexed bodies. It commences with a brief discussion on gendered approaches in the two main strands of Roman archaeology-classical and provincial. Within the differing frameworks of the wider disciplines of classics and archaeology, both strands focus on contexts with sexed bodies-burials, figurative representation, and inscriptions. The discussion serves as a background for more integrated and more interrogative approaches to relationships between Roman ar tifacts and gendered practices, approaches that aim to develop interpretative tools for investigating social practice in contexts where no representational or biologi cally sexed bodies are evident. Three types of artifacts-brooches, glass bottles, and needles-are used to demonstrate how differing degrees of gender associations of artifacts and artifact assemblages can provide insights into gender relationships in settlement contexts. These insights in turn contribute to better understandings of gendered sociospatial practices across the Roman world.*

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Romanization: A Feminist Critique

Cited by 14 publications

References 23 publications

The Construction, Use, and Discard of Female Identities: Interpreting Spindle Whorls at Vindolanda and Corbridge

The Construction, Use, and Discard of Female Identities: Interpreting Spindle Whorls at Vindolanda and Corbridge

Foot-fall and Hoof-hit. Agencies, Movements, Materialities, and Identities; and Later Prehistoric and Romano-British Trackways

Characterizing Roman Artifacts to Investigate Gendered Practices in Contexts Without Sexed Bodies

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