| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Shared Spaces and Divided Places: Material Dimensions of Gender Relations and the American Historical Landscape. Ed. by Deborah L. Rotman and Ellen-Rose Savulis. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. xii, 260 pp. $39.50, ISBN 1-57233-234-4.)

Deborah L. Rotman and Ellen-Rose Savulis have an impressive collection of essays that explore the "materiality and spatiality of gender relations" (p. 1). This collection began as a conference workshop and is targeted primarily to scholars in archaeology—which, according to the editors, is a discipline that lags behind others in incorporating feminist scholarship. They argue convincingly that landscape can and should be understood broadly. Most critically, the collection demonstrates the degree to which gender is a critical factor in structuring material landscapes and the built environment. Although this central point may not strike American historians as especially novel, there is nonetheless much of value in this collection for historians—especially in the best of the essays, such as those documenting how gender mattered in structuring slave plantations, religious communities, and the conservation projects of the New Deal.

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