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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Martinez, Katharine, 1950-

Ames, Kenneth L.

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

Conference Name:

Winterthur Conference.

Series:

Winterthur book

[Winterthur book]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture.

History.

United States--Social life and customs.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Material culture--United States.

Material culture--United States--History.

Sex role--United States.

Sex role.

Sex role--United States--History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 457 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Gender of material culture

Place of Publication:

Winterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ; Hanover : Distributed by Univerity Press of New England, [1997]

Summary:

Essays expanding the definition of gender and its interface with American material culture. In showing some of the ways gender is made visible, they explore avenues such as the gender of things that surround us; subtle and invisible processes of inclusion and exclusion from valuation; fusing form and content, practice and product; and how the material culture of gender produces gendered beings.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0912724404

OCLC:

37499859