TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirkham,Pat
TI  - The gendered object
SN  - 0719044758 (pbk.)
U1  - 305.3 KIR 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Manchester, UK, New York, New York
PB  - Manchester University Press, Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin\'s Press
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Sexism
KW  - Femininity
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Attribution (Social psychology)
KW  - Clothing and dress
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Toys
KW  - Sex differences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index.; Introduction; Pat Kirkham and Judy Attfield --; Interiors: nineteenth-century essays on the \'masculine\' and the \'feminine\' room; Juliet Kinchin --; Washing machine: \'Mother\'s not herself today\'; Jane Graves --; Hearing aids: sweet nothings, or and ear for an ear; Hillel Schwartz ==; Bicycles; Nicholas Oddy --; Guns: the \'last frontier on the road to equality\'?; Susie McKellar --; Barbie and Action Man: adult toys for girls and boys, 1959-93; Judy Attfield --; Dolls: odour, disgust, femininity and toy design; Heather Hendershot --; Children\'s clothes: design and promotion; Cheryl Buckley; Artists\' clothes: some observations on male artists and their clothes in the nineteenth century; Colin Cruise --; Training shoe: \'pump up the power\'; Christine Boydell --; Legging it; Mary Schoeser --; Trousers: feminism in nineteenth-century America; Kate Luck --; Suit: a common bond or defeated purpose?; Lee Wright --; Tie: presence and absence; Juliet Ash --; Jackets: engendering the object in Desperately Seeking Susan; Anne Wales --; Tom and Jerry: cat suits and mouse-taken identities; Paul Wells --; Cosmetics: a Clinique case study; Pat Kirkham and Alex Weller --; Perfume: pleasure, packaging and postmodernity; Angela Partington --; Memory and objects; Juliet Ash
ER  -