The intersections of industrialization: Variation in skeletal indicators of frailty by age, sex, and socioeconomic status in 18th‐ and 19th‐century England

Yaussy, Samantha L.

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“…In recent years, intersectionality has been applied in bioarchaeological research to untangle the effects of factors such as diet, childhood stress, and occupational hygiene upon past individuals' health (e.g., Dent, 2017; Gowland et al, 2018; Hughes‐Morey, 2016; Ives & Humphrey, 2017; Newman & Gowland, 2016). However, few works explicitly name and foreground the principles of intersectionality theory (e.g., Byrnes, 2017; Torres‐Rouff & Knudson, 2017; Yaussy, 2019). These recent investigations demonstrate the importance of an intersectional approach that places value on understanding the interactions between, for example, status, the cultural construction of identity, frailty, and disability.…”

Section: Bioarchaeology and Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectionality and trauma analysis in bioarchaeology

Mant

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Brickley

2021

American J Phys Anthropol

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Intersectionality, the theory named by Kimberlé Crenshaw, outlines how multiple elements of an individual's social identity overlap to create and preserve societal inequalities and discrimination. Recently bioarchaeology's engagement with intersectionality has become increasingly explicit, as the field recognizes the lived experience of multiple axes of an individual's identity. Evidence of trauma can remain observable in an individual's skeleton for years, making it an ideal subject of study for intersectional analyses in bioarchaeology. Using contrasting case studies of two individuals who died in hospitals and were unclaimed after death, we explore the theoretical and methodological application of intersectionality to investigations of accidental and interpersonal trauma. Differences in identities and structural inequalities affect bone quality and health outcomes. As we demonstrate, a broken bone is the intersecting result of biological, histomorphological, sociocultural, and behavioral factors. This approach allows for a better acknowledgement of the inherent complexity of past lives, elevating and amplifying previously silenced voices. In this way, intersectionality in bioarchaeology demands social justice.

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Section: Bioarchaeology and Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectionality and trauma analysis in bioarchaeology

Mant

Cova

Brickley

2021

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…Third, a study by Yaussy (2019) applies intersectionality in her study of health outcomes in four skeletal samples from industrial-era England. Yaussy investigates how sex and socioeconomic status affect patterns of frailty (i.e., differential susceptibility to disease and death among members of a population; Vaupel et al 1979) and mortality at the population level.…”

Section: Bioarchaeology and Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectionality and the Interpretation of Past Pandemics

Yaussy

2022

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Intersectionality refers to the potential for multiple axes of identity to overlap and interact within a single individual, whose lived experiences are further affected by structural forms of oppression that are perpetuated within their society. Intersectionality has been adapted by a variety of social science disciplines exploring the negative effects of multiple marginalization and systemic inequality in living populations, but remarkably few intersectional studies of health or pandemics in the past have been produced in bioarchaeology. Bioarchaeologists, specifically, are uniquely positioned to contribute to interdisciplinary discourse by expanding the contextual and temporal purviews of intersectionality scholarship, which currently focuses primarily on living populations from Western, industrialized contexts. The purpose of this review is to encourage and facilitate intersectionality research within bioarchaeology. To accomplish this goal, the article is divided into three sections: the first section provides a general overview of intersectionality, the second section discusses examples of intersectional scholarship from related disciplines that address health disparities and modern pandemics, and the third section considers the ways in which bioarchaeologists might integrate intersectionality in our empirical research on health and disease in the past. Given the potentially daunting task of using bioarchaeological data to investigate intersectionality and health in the past, the third section also highlights three quantitative methodologies that intersectionality scholars have used to investigate the independent, additive effects of individual social identities as well as the multiplicative effects of those same identities as they operate in conjunction with each other to produce patterns of health outcomes in living populations.

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“…The physiological stress response elicited by exposure to stigma can slow recovery and increase a person's chances of developing complications such as secondary or additional infections, while psychosocial stress can have serious mental health impacts (Brewis et al 2020). Stigma associated with an infectious disease and/or its sequelae can also reinforce existing stereotypes and heighten discrimination when concentrated in already marginalized groups; such intersectional stigma can lead to the compounding of suffering (Brewis et al 2020; for discussion of intersectional analysis in bioarchaeology, see Mant et al 2021 andYaussy 2019). Furthermore, visible and impairing sequelae following infection with a contagious disease can also increase suffering by bringing discrimination and the stigma of disability and difference into the mix.…”

Section: What Can Survivors Tell Us? Social Landscapes and Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Mortality

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Gilmour

2021

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Epidemics and pandemics are typically discussed in terms of morbidity and mortality, susceptibility and immunity, and social responses to and impacts of the immediate epidemic event. Much less attention is paid to the longer-term consequences for individuals and populations in terms of the sequelae of infections, such as blindness after smallpox, deafness due to congenital rubella, and paralysis after polio. This same tendency is observed in the COVID-19 pandemic, with counts of cases and deaths, questions of immunity, and economic impacts at the foreground and long-term or chronic health impairment of COVID-19 survivors receiving less attention. Much of the existing research on the effects of such disease sequelae has come from disability history; in addition, the bioarchaeology of impairment/disability is an emerging area of research that can contribute insight into experiences of disease consequences. In this article, we give an overview of published work on survivors of infectious disease using both bioarchaeology and disability history. Using the example of post-polio paralysis, we propose a theoretical approach to the bioarchaeological study of infectious disease that is inclusive of the history of impairment and disability, which we refer to as a survivor lens. We structure this discussion through scaffolded questions that move through multiple levels of analysis: from the individual and relational to the drivers of cultural change. We argue that bioarchaeological research on past epidemics and pandemics that attends to morbidity and lasting impairment and disability can contribute to wider conversations about infectious disease and disability in the past and present. En général, les épidémies et les pandémies sont considérées en termes de morbidité et de mortalité, de susceptibilité et d’immunité, et de réponses sociales et d’impacts immédiats de l’événement épidémique. Moins d’attention est accordée aux conséquences à long terme pour les individus et les populations en termes de séquelles d’infections, telles que la cécité après la variole, la surdité due à la rubéole congénitale et la paralysie après la polio. Cette même tendance est observée lors de la pandémie de COVID-19. Il y a moins d’attention accordée au nombre de cas et de décès, aux questions d’immunité et d’impacts économiques au premier plan, et aux problèmes de santé à long terme ou chroniques des survivants de COVID-19 reçoivent. Une grande partie de la recherche existante sur les effets de ces séquelles de la maladie provient de la recherche sur les déficiences/handicaps. De plus, la bioarchéologie de la déficience/handicap est un domaine de recherche émergent qui peut contribuer à mieux comprendre les expériences des conséquences de maladie. Dans cet article, nous donnons un aperçu des travaux publiés sur les survivants de maladies infectieuses en utilisant à la fois la bioarchéologie et l’histoire du handicap. En utilisant l’exemple de la paralysie post-polio, nous proposons une approche théorique de l’étude bioarchéologique des maladies infectieuses qui inclut l’histoire de la déficience/handicap, que nous appelons une lentille de survivant. Nous structurons cette discussion à travers des questions échafaudées qui traversent de multiples niveaux d’analyse: de l’individu au relationnel, jusqu’au aux changements culturels. Nous soutenons que la recherche bioarchéologique sur les épidémies et pandémies historiques qui examine la morbidité et le handicap peut contribuer à des conversations plus larges sur les maladies infectieuses et le handicap au passé ainsi qu’au présent.

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The intersections of industrialization: Variation in skeletal indicators of frailty by age, sex, and socioeconomic status in 18th‐ and 19th‐century England

Cited by 22 publications

References 94 publications

Intersectionality and trauma analysis in bioarchaeology

Intersectionality and trauma analysis in bioarchaeology

Intersectionality and the Interpretation of Past Pandemics

Beyond Mortality

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