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Mechanical brides : women and machines from home to office / Ellen Lupton.
LIBRA HQ1420 .L87 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Lupton, Ellen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--United States--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Office equipment and supplies--Social aspects.
- Office equipment and supplies.
- Household appliances--Social aspects.
- Household appliances.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Technology--Social aspects--United States.
- Technology.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Household appliances--Social aspects--United States.
- Office equipment and supplies--Social aspects--United States.
- Sex role--United States.
- Sex role.
- Industrial design--Social aspects--United States.
- Industrial design.
- Industrial design--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 65 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution ; Princeton : Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.
- Summary:
- Mechanical Brides considers gender segregation -- both implicit and explicit -- in the home and workplace by linking appliances and business equipment to their life in culture. The social, economic, and sexual meanings of objects are revealed through advertising, photo-journalism, film stills, and an analysis of changing design styles. This book will appeal to anyone interested in advertising, industrial design, American studies, cultural studies, or women's studies.
- "Thorough, annotated, good-looking, and well-written. It shows off, very well, the imagination and extensive scholarship that created the project". -- Victoria Milne, Blueprint
- "Relentlessly witty.... Hits a major nerve.... Gazing into the emotionally charged universe of the home, curator Ellen Lupton has lifted the lid on the history, of modern sexuality". -- Kay Larson, New York
- Notes:
- Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name, to be held at Cooper-Hewitt from 8-17-93 to 1-4-94.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 65).
- ISBN:
- 1878271970
- OCLC:
- 28336985
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