His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813918022 ISBN 13 : 9780813918020

Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 1998

Synopsis

The pathbreaking essays in this collection explore the history of consumption by synthesizing discrete historical literatures on consumer culture, gender, and the history of technology. Luxury hotels and the chocolate industry are among the diverse array of topics these authors use to demonstrate that consumption is both a material and a cultural process. Production and consumption become equally inextricable under close analysis. Tools from both the history of technology and gender studies illuminate how these categories intersect. Although broad social and technological trends influence the outcome of these stories, the authors emphasize the agaency of particular groups, including consumers, workers, manufacturers, and the "mediators" who communicate between producers and consumers. This volume will be of interest to historians in a wide range of fields.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roger Horowitz is Associate Director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. He is the author of "Negro and White, Unite and Fight!" A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-1990. Arwen Mohun is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Delaware and the author of the forthcoming Close to Home: Gender and Technology in the British and American Steam Laundry Industries, 1880-1940.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Virginia Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813918022
• ISBN 13: 9780813918020
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Horowitz Roger, Mohun Arwen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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