The gendered object
By: edited by Pat Kirkham.
Contributors: Kirkham, Pat.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press; Manchester Univ Pr
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Sex role; Sexism; Femininity; Masculinity; Attribution (Social psychology); Clothing and dress -- Psychological aspects; Toys -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Pat Kirkham and Judy Attfield; title: Interiors: nineteenth-century essays on the 'masculine' and the 'feminine' room / Juliet Kinchin; title: Washing machine: 'Mother's not herself today' / Jane Graves; title: Hearing aids: sweet nothings, or an ear for an ear / Hillel Schwartz; title: Bicycles / Nicholas Oddy; title: Guns: the 'last frontier on the road to equality'? / Susie McKellar; title: Barbie and Action Man: adult toys for girls and boys, 1959-93 / Judy Attfield; title: Dolls: odour, disgust, femininity and toy design / Heather Hendershot; title: Children's clothes: design and promotion / Cheryl Buckley; title: Artists' clothes: some observations on male artists and their clothes in the nineteenth century / Colin Cruise; title: Training shoe: 'pump up the power' / Christine Boydell; title: Legging it / Mary Schoeser; title: Trousers: feminism in nineteenth-century America / Kate Luck; title: Suit: a common bond or defeated purpose? / Lee Wright; title: Tie: presence and absence / Juliet Ash; title: Jackets: engendering the object in Desperately Seeking Susan / Anne Wales; title: Tom and Jerry: cat suits and mouse-taken identities / Paul Wells; title: Cosmetics: a Clinique case study / Pat Kirkham and Alex Weller; title: Perfume: pleasure, packaging and postmodernity / Angela Partington; title: Memory and objects / Juliet Ash.