Article2019

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

40 citations0/0 files storedAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies Paleopathology and ancient diseases

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Intersectionality theory argues that various categories of identity and forms of systemic oppression interact and produce inequalities in resource access, economic opportunities, and health outcomes. However, there has been little explicit engagement with this theory by bioarchaeologists examining disparate health outcomes in the past. This study examines the associations among frailty, age at death, sex, and socioeconomic status (SES) in 18th- and 19th-century England. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The sample for this study comes from four industrial-era cemeteries from England, ca. 1711-1857. The associations among adult age (18+ years), SES, sex, and three skeletal indicators of stress (dental enamel hypoplasia [DEH, n = 293], cribra orbitalia [CO, n = 457], periosteal lesions [PNB, n = 436]) are examined using hierarchical log-linear analysis. RESULTS: Significant interactions existed among the variables examined for two skeletal indicators: high SES females had lower frequencies of CO relative to other groups and males between ages 30-45 years exhibited higher frequencies of PNB compared to females or males of older or younger ages, regardless of SES. Additionally, sex and SES were consistently associated with age at death. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that patterns of stress indicators cannot be examined solely across unilateral axes of age, SES, or sex. Intersecting axes of privilege, marginalization, and structural oppression may have buffered high SES females from some negative health outcomes (CO) while predisposing them to others (risk of maternal mortality). Likewise, the hazardous working conditions relegated to adult males may have heightened the risk of injury, infection, and death for middle-aged men in industrial-era England.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 40 citations exist upstream.

References

1991Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color 2018Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics [1989]1994Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains 2012The Problem With the Phrase Women and Minorities: Intersectionality—an Important Theoretical Framework for Public Health 1979The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality 2003Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains 2015Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas 1984INEQUALITIES IN DEATH—SPECIFIC EXPLANATIONS OF A GENERAL PATTERN?

Cited by

2021Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past 2022Compounding vulnerabilities: Syndemics and the social determinants of disease in the past 2020Respiratory Stress at the Periphery of Industrial-Era London: Insight from Parishes Within and Outside the City 2021Age‐at‐death patterns and transition analysis trends for three Asian populations: Implications for [paleo]demography

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.