Synopses & Reviews
What does Strawberry Shortcake tell us about the female body? Is a neck tie anti-establishment? An entertaining study of the design of everyday objects and their gendered allegiance.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction and Acknowledgements - Pat Kirkham
- Toward the Introduction of Gendered Objects - Pat Kirkham and Judy Attfield
- The Gendered Interior: Nineteenth Century Essays on the ‘Masculine’ and the ‘Feminine’ room - Juliet Kinchin
- Mother’s Not Herself Today - Jane Graves
- Sweet Nothings or an Ear for an Ear: Women, Men, and Hearing Aids - Hillel Schwartz
- From Practicality to Femininity: Gender and the Dropped Frame Bicycle - Nicholas Oddy
- Women and Guns: the ‘Last Frontier on the Road to Equality’ - Susie McKellar
- Playing with Gender-Barbie and Action Man, Adult Dolls for Girls and Boys, 1959-1993 - Judy Attfield.
- The Strawberry Shortcake Doll: Odour, Disgust, Femininity and Toy Design - Heather Hendershot
- Fashioning Femininity from 0 to 3 Years: the Design and Promotion of Baby and Children’s Clothes - Cheryl Buckley
- Looking the (P)art: some Observations on Male Artists and their Clothes in the Nineteenth Century - Colin Cruise
- ‘Pump up the Power’: Gender, Promotion and the Training Shoe - Christine Boydell
- Feminising Trousers for Feminism in Nineteenth Century America - Kate Luck
- The Aesthetics of Absence: the Tie-its Gendered Presence and Absence - Juliet Ash
- A Common Bond or a Defeated Purpose?: Gender and the Suit - Lee Wright
-That Crazy Girl with the Jacket: Engendering the Object in ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ - Anne Wales