The material culture of gender, the gender of material culture / edited by Katharine Martinez and Kenneth L. Ames.

Other author Martinez, Katharine, 1950-
Other author Ames, Kenneth L.
Other author Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoWinterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ; Hanover : Distributed by University Press of New England, ©1997.
Descriptionviii, 457 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Material culture--United States.
Material culture--United States. --History.
Sex role--United States.
Sex role--United States. --History.
United States--Social life and customs.

Contents Introduction : the power of gender and the gender of power -- Of mice and men : gender identity and collecting -- The gendering of infants' and toddlers' clothing in America -- Time, technophobia, and the transition of gender definitions -- Gender and creative production : a social history lesson in art evaluation -- From cult to profession : domestic women in search of equality -- Fatherland : masculinity, technology, and the doll economy, 1860-1908 -- Gender and genius : the auto industry and femininity -- The gendered environment of the corporate workplace, 1880-1930 -- Putting things in order : the domestic aesthetic of Wilder's little house books -- Women folk and popular arts : the need for a grounded theory -- Feminist readings of folk material culture studies -- Intimacy and objects : a proxemic analysis of gender-based response to the material world -- Mudwomen and whitemen : a meditation on pueblo potteries and the politics of representation -- The ritualization of male friendship and virtue in nineteenth-century fraternal organizations -- The masculine bias of the vernacular -- Space, cultural authority, and the imagery of feminine influence -- Gifts of wild game : masculine and feminine in nineteenth-century hunting imagery -- A manly art : American trompe l'oeil painting and the manufacture of masculinity -- Shells and women : the Philadelphia conchological illustrators -- Quilts and the colonialization/colonization of the American "woman" -- The voice of gender in the world of goods : Beau Brummell and the cunning of present gender symbolism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 97029399
ISBN0912724404

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Joyner General Stacks E161 .M354 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold