Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Winterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ; Hanover : Distributed by Univerity Press of New England, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Martinez, Katharine, 1950-
• Ames, Kenneth L.
• Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Winterthur Conference.

Description

viii, 457 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Gender of material culture

Subject

• Material culture > United States
• Material culture > United States > History
• Sex role > United States
• Sex role > United States > History
• United States > Social life and customs

Note

• The essays in this book were first presented at the Winterthur Conference.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Call Number

JFD 99-2338

ISBN

0912724404

LCCN

97029399

OCLC

37499859

Title

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

Imprint

Winterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ; Hanover : Distributed by Univerity Press of New England, c1997.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Martinez, Katharine, 1950-

Ames, Kenneth L.

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

Winterthur Conference.

Research Call Number

JFD 99-2338