The gendered object /
edited by Pat Kirkham.
- Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin\'s Press, 1996.
- xiv, 226 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Interiors: nineteenth-century essays on the \'masculine\' and the \'feminine\' room / Washing machine: \'Mother\'s not herself today\' / Hearing aids: sweet nothings, or and ear for an ear / Bicycles / Guns: the \'last frontier on the road to equality\'? / Barbie and Action Man: adult toys for girls and boys, 1959-93 / Dolls: odour, disgust, femininity and toy design / Children\'s clothes: design and promotion / Pat Kirkham and Judy Attfield -- Juliet Kinchin -- Jane Graves -- Hillel Schwartz == Nicholas Oddy -- Susie McKellar -- Judy Attfield -- Heather Hendershot -- Cheryl Buckley. Artists\' clothes: some observations on male artists and their clothes in the nineteenth century / Training shoe: \'pump up the power\' / Legging it / Trousers: feminism in nineteenth-century America / Suit: a common bond or defeated purpose? / Tie: presence and absence / Jackets: engendering the object in Desperately Seeking Susan / Tom and Jerry: cat suits and mouse-taken identities / Cosmetics: a Clinique case study / Perfume: pleasure, packaging and postmodernity / Memory and objects / Colin Cruise -- Christine Boydell -- Mary Schoeser -- Kate Luck -- Lee Wright -- Juliet Ash -- Anne Wales -- Paul Wells -- Pat Kirkham and Alex Weller -- Angela Partington -- Juliet Ash.
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Sex role. Sexism. Femininity. Masculinity. Attribution (Social psychology). Clothing and dress--Psychological aspects. Toys--Psychological aspects.