MoDA Reading List – Gender

Background reading on the many ways in which you might approach gender when looking at MoDA’s collections, compiled by staff at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture

Gender and Power

[Book] Gilman, Charlotte Perkins; Bauer, Dale M.(1998) The yellow wallpaper. Boston. Bedford Books. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Terret, T. (2002). Sports and Erotica: Erotic Postcards of Sportswomen France’s “Années Folles.” Journal of Sport History29(2), 271–287. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/43610231] Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Cocks, H.G. (2012) ‘READING OBSCENE TEXTS AND THEIR HISTORIES’, Media history, 18(3-4), pp. 275–288. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2012.722421. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Vickery, A. (2019) Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England. New Haven: Yale University Press. Find it on MDX Library Search

The Modern Woman

[Article] Macdonald, C. (2013) ‘Body and Self: learning to be modern in 1920s–1930s Britain’, Women’s history review., 22(2), pp. 267–279. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2012.726115. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Zweiniger-Bargielowska, I. (2011) ‘The Making of a Modern Female Body: beauty, health and fitness in interwar Britain’, Women’s history review., 20(2), pp. 299–317. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2011.556324. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Friedan, B. (1965) The feminine mystique. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Find it on MDX Library Search

Magazines

[Article] Hornsey, R. (2019) ‘“The modern way to loveliness”: middle-class cosmetics and chain-store beauty culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain’, Women’s history review., 28(1), pp. 111–138. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1457126. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Greenfield, J. and Reid, C. (1998) ‘Women’s magazines and the commercial orchestration of femininity in the 1930s: Evidence from woman’s own’, Media history, 4(2), pp. 161–174. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688809809357942. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Tinkler, Penny.(1995) Constructing girlhood : popular magazines for girls growing up in England, 1920-1950. London. Taylor & Francis. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Hackney, F. (2006) ‘“Use Your Hands for Happiness”:: Home Craft and Make-do-and-Mend in British Women’s Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s’, Journal of design history., 19(1), pp. 23–38. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epk003. Find it on MDX Library Search

Suburbia

[Article]
Veracini, L. (2012) ‘Suburbia, Settler Colonialism and the World Turned Inside Out’, Housing, theory and society., 29(4), pp. 339–357. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2011.638316. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Ryan, D.S. (2011) ‘Living in a “Half-Baked Pageant”: the Tudorbethan semi and suburban modernity in Britain, 1918–39’, Home cultures., 8(3), pp. 217–244. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2752/175174211X13099693358717. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Hackney, F. (2006) ‘The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity’, Journal of Design History, 19(3), pp. 266–268. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epl014. Find it on MDX Library Search