As Long As It's Pink The Sexual Politics of Taste

Name: As Long As It's Pink The Sexual Politics of Taste
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ISBN: 9780044409236

ISBN-10: 0044409230

ISBN-13: 9780044409236

Edition: 2nd 1995

Authors: Penny Sparke

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This book uses familiar objects of our everyday environment to look at how our taste has become a gendered issue in our culture. It asks whether male and female tastes are really different, who says it is, and why it would matter.

Book details

Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Pandora Press
Publication date: 1/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: 'The Architect's Wife'


Feminine Taste and Design Reform, 1830-1890


'An Institution of God Himself': The Domestic Ideal


'The Things which Surround One': The Domestic Aesthetic


'Those Extravagant Draperies': Domesticity Contested


Modernity and Masculinity, 1890-1940


'Everything in its Place': Women and Modernity


'Letting in the Air': Women and Modernism


'The Selling Value of Art': Women and the Moderne


'We are All Creators': Women and Conservative Modernism


Modernity and Femininity, 1940-1970


'The Happy Housewife': Domesticity Renewed


'A Kind of Golden Age': Goods and Femininity


'The Anxiety of Contamination': Highbrow Culture and the Problem of Taste


Conclusion: Postmodernity, Postmodernism and Feminine Taste


Notes


Bibliography


Index