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Product Description: The power of Christmas derives from the appeal of its repeated rituals, the presumed antiquity of its traditions, and its ability to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Christmas cards seemed inevitable and ubiquitous, but in recent years the genre has been visibly in decline...read more
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9780300176872 | Bard College Center, November 29, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The power of Christmas derives from the appeal of its repeated rituals, the presumed antiquity of its traditions, and its ability to adapt to changing cultural conditions.
Product Description: Essays expanding the definition of gender and its interface with American material culture. In showing some of the ways gender is made visible, they explore avenues such as the gender of things that surround us; subtle and invisible processes of inclusion and exclusion from valuation; fusing form and content, practice and product; and how the material culture of gender produces gendered beings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780912724409 | Winterthur Museum, December 1, 1997, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Essays expanding the definition of gender and its interface with American material culture.
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9780761989325 | Reprint edition (Altamira Pr, January 1, 1997), cover price $38.00
9780942063202 | Altamira Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $24.95
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9780878059478 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, October 1, 1996, cover price $35.00
Product Description: Takes a look at Victorian America, and explores the minds of Victorians by examining some of their most distinctive and fascinating creations. The five essays in the book discuss specific pieces - hallstands, sideboards, embroidered mottoes, parlor organs, and seating furniture - within the context of broader cultural issues and concerns...read more
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9780877228912 | Temple Univ Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This study of the household goods of Victorian America reveals the character, conflicts and tensions within the Victorian world.
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9781566393331, titled "Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture" | Temple Univ Pr, February 10, 1995, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Takes a look at Victorian America, and explores the minds of Victorians by examining some of their most distinctive and fascinating creations.
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9780912724195 | Winterthur Museum, December 1, 1989, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A useful bibliography on 21 specific aspects of decorative arts and household furnishings.
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