Lupton, Ellen.

Mechanical brides : women and machines from home to office / Ellen Lupton.

New York : Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1993.

65 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Princeton Architectural Press

"Mechanical Brides: Women and Machiens from Home to Office consider design history from the perspective of female users and consumers. The telephone, typewriter, washing machine, and electric iron have been central to the definition of 'women's work' in twentieth-century America. Cultural ideas about the duties and ambitions of women are reflected and reinforced by the ways appliances have been designed, marketed, used, and imagined. More than 40 illustrations in color and over 100 in black and white reveal the gender significance attached to seemingly neutral things"--Back cover.

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Women United States Social conditions.
Technology Social aspects United States.
Household appliances Social aspects United States.
Office equipment and supplies Social aspects United States.
Sex role United States.
Industrial design Social aspects United States.
Femmes États-Unis Conditions sociales.
Appareils ménagers Aspect social États-Unis.
Bureaux Appareils et matériel Aspect social États-Unis.
Rôle selon le sexe États-Unis.
Design Aspect social États-Unis.
15.85 history of America.
Household appliances Social aspects
Industrial design Social aspects
Office equipment and supplies Social aspects
Sex role
Technology Social aspects
Women Social conditions
Vrouwenarbeid.
Kantoorarbeid.
Huishoudelijke apparaten.
Mechanisering.
Gender roles.
United States
Design, Industrial
Household appliances
Office equipment and supplies
Technology
Women

Government publications United States.
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
Books.

Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

Location: Library main 111455
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