You might look at thethe contributions to Making Gender with Things, English translation (available on line through JStor of Objets et Fabrication du genre. Autumn, 2014 issue (40) of Clio: Femmes, Histoire, Genre. Editors Leora Auslander, with Rebecca Rogers and Michelle Zancarini-Fournel. On material culture as a source for historians of gender and sexuality.
Best,
Leora Auslander
History, Univ. of Chicago
Jo Paoletti's Pink and Blue: telling the boys from the girls in america is one of my go-to referrals for the topic of children's gendering and material culture.
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809762103
I think looking at the presentation of very young children is especially effective because they were dressed almost without gender until school-age for most of portraited history. And now you'll see some parents push back on boys wearing even a plain daygown because it's a "dress".
Hi Sophie,
I find that Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs by Psyche Williams-Forson (link below), is a great example of material culture and gender converging. I hope you find it useful!
https://books.google.ch/books/about/Building_Houses_Out_of_Chicken_Legs....
Hi, I have written on the materiality of the AK47 rifle among Islamist militants and implications on masculinities among them. The article touches upon the theme of the gendered object. You can find abstract and URL below:
Hi, I'm teaching a new Graduate interdisciplinary seminar on "Gender & Material Culture" (keen to keep it open in terms of time/place as it will have a range of students), I would appreciate any suggestions for readings and approaches that have worked well, esp. in terms of methodology but also case-studies. Thanks!
Sophie White, Professor of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
Special Thanks to Debby Andrews for sharing this great resource!
The following is a report from a conference workshop held at the 2014 American Studies Association meeting.
Twenty Years, Twenty Questions to Ask an Object
Friday November 7 2014
2:00 to 3:45pm, Westin Bonaventure, Level 1, Los Cerritos (L1)
Debby Andrews, Sarah Carter, Estella Chung, Ellen Garvey, Catherine Whalen
If you have taught a Material Culture course of any sort, intro or advanced, undergraduate or graduate, please share your syllabus with your colleagues. Send them to editorial-material-culture@mail.h-net.msu.edu (or by clicking on “Write to the Editors” on the right side of the homepage) and adding them as attachments.
