Jennifer G. Germann Heidi A Strobel Assoc. Prof. Michael E. Yonan
Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the contributors' engagement with gender as the conceptual locus of analysis in terms of femininity, masculinity, and the spaces in between. Collectively, these essays by art historians and museum professionals argue for a more complex understanding of the relationship between objects and subjects in gendered terms. The objects under consideration range from the quotidian to the exotic, including beds, guns, fans, needle paintings, prints, drawings,...
Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the contri...