Mechanical brides
Subtitle: women and machines from home to office
By: Ellen Lupton.
Contributors: Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Publisher: Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution; Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Women -- United States -- Social conditions; Technology -- Social aspects -- United States; Household appliances -- Social aspects -- United States; Office equipment and supplies -- Social aspects -- United States; Sex role -- United States; Design, Industrial -- United States -- Social aspects
Description: "Mechanical Brides: Women and Machiens from Home to Office consider design history from the perspective of female users and consumers. The telephone, typewriter, washing machine, and electric iron have been central to the definition of 'women's work' in twentieth-century America. Cultural ideas about the duties and ambitions of women are reflected and reinforced by the ways appliances have been designed, marketed, used, and imagined. More than 40 illustrations in color and over 100 in black and white reveal the gender significance attached to seemingly neutral things"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 65).
Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name, to be held at Cooper-Hewitt from 8-17-93 to 1-4-94.