'A feminine touch’: gender, design and the ocean liner

This article offers an interdisciplinary account of gender in relation to ocean liner interior design. It outlines a case study of what the discipline of design history can bring to gender and maritime history. A historiography of the subject is followed by an analysis of the ways in which the spaces on board British ocean liners were conceived of, designed and used in terms of gender. Some spaces on board were designated as female only and other spaces understood to be male only – particularly the smoking room. The concluding part of the article considers the role of women designers within the patriarchal world of ship design and construction, by investigating the contributions of Elsie Mackay at P & O and the Zinkeisen sisters on the Queen Mary. Using primary sources, including visual evidence, the article considers a range of liners, from the Hindostan (1842) through to the Orontes (1929; refitted 1948). This bridges the gap between design history, gender and maritime history and adds to debates around gender and maritime history with a consideration of the overlooked area of design and its histories

Wild Things : The Material Culture of Everyday Life.

New Yorkxv, 318 p, 23 cm

Wild Things : The Material Culture of Everyday Life

Oxfordxv, 318 p.; bibl., fig., ind.; 23 cm

Le lit, la baignoire et la porte: La vie sociale des objets psychiatriques

À travers la baignoire, un objet évident du traitement, le lit, un objet hospitalier ordinaire, et la porte, artefact passant le plus souvent inaperçu, l’article essaie de porter un nouveau regard sur l’histoire de la psychiatrie au xxe siècle. Prenant en compte la « biographie » des objets, de leur conception à leur pratique, l’article souligne l’interdépendance entre des objets qui déterminent la pratique psychiatrique quotidienne, et la psychiatrie qui transforme ces mêmes objets.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Design, Anthropology of

Design is an expanding and emerging topic for anthropological study. Its evasiveness as a cultural phenomenon, which some see as ubiquitous and some see as very limited and specific, necessitates careful handling but is also one of the reasons why it is an interesting cultural phenomenon. The study of design in anthropology originated in the study of graphical representation and graphical ways of thinking and developed into studies of the design of everyday materialities. Recent work has focused on professional and institutional design practices and developed collaborative ways of doing anthropological work through design anthropology