Gênero e artefato
In this book, Vânia Carneiro de Carvalho overcomes the inconvenient separation between material and non-material culture, based on the assumption of the existence of a symbiosis between objects and the formation of social identities, according to genders. It develops a history of culture and social life with the introduction of material problems, bringing to light the dynamics of everyday life: the relationship of the human with spaces and objects. The author speaks specifically of the organization of the domestic space and system, in a period marked by radical transformations in the city of São Paulo, and studies, with emphasis on the body and corporality, aspects related to the female gender, such as environments, domestic work, desires and symbolic gratifications. The result of extensive research based on material, visual and textual sources, this is a model of study on material culture that allows the understanding of gender culture.