The Material Culture of Gender, the Gender of Material Culture

Download or read book The Material Culture of Gender, the Gender of Material Culture written by Katharine Martinez and published by Winterthur Museum. This book was released on 1997 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving beyond traditional notions of gender as a static concept wherein human beings are passively molded into gender-appropriate behavior, 23 scholars instead view it as a negotiated, contested, and interactive process. In showing some of the ways gender is made visible, they explore avenues such as the gender of things that surround us; subtle and invisible processes of inclusion and exclusion from valuation; fusing form and content, practice and product; and how the material culture of gender produces gendered beings.