Title: Mechanical brides
Subtitle: women and machines from home to office
First published: 1993
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.
Subjects: Household appliances, Industrial Design, Office equipment and supplies, Sex role, Social aspects, Social aspects of Household appliances, Social aspects of Industrial design, Social aspects of Office equipment and supplies, Social aspects of Technology, Social conditions, Technology, Women, Women, social conditions, Technology, social aspects
Places: United States
LC classification: HQ1420 .L87 1993