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Subject: Konferenz: Boys and their Toys? (Wilmington, 3.10.97)
Date: Sunday, May 18, 1997 17:14:55 MET |
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Conference Announcement: Boys and Their Toys
"BOYS AND THEIR TOYS?" MASCULINITY, TECHNOLOGY, AND WORK
Friday October 3, 1997, Hagley Museum and Library Soda House, Wilmington,
DE 19807
8:30-9:00 COFFEE
9:00-11:30 MASCULINITY AND WORK CULTURE
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Stephen Meyer (University of Wisconsin-Parkside), "Work, Play, and
Power: Masculine Culture on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1930-1965"
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Jeff Suzik (Carnegie Mellon University), "Building Better Men: The
CCC Boy and the Changing Social Ideal of Manliness"
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Nancy Quam-Wickham (California State University, Long Beach), "Re-reading
Man's Conquest of Nature: Myths, Skill, and the Historical Construction of
Masculinity in Western Extractive Industries"
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Gregory Clancey (MIT), "Manhood by Design, by Construction: Architects
and Carpenters as Masculine Binary"
11:30-12:30 LUNCH
12:30-2:00 RISK AND DANGER
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Christopher McKenna (Wharton School), "'Better Living Through Chemistry?'
Industrial Accidents and Masculinity at DuPont, 1890-1930"
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Ben A. Shackleford (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Masculinity,
Class Stratification, and the Auto Racing Fraternity: The Pit Stop as a
Celebration of Social Roles"
2:00-2:30 BREAK
2:30-4:30 WORK AS PLAY/PLAY AS WORK
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Woody Register (University of the South), "'Everyday Peter Pans':
Work, Manhood, and Consumption in Urban America, 1900-1930"
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Gary Cross (Pennsylvania State University), "Boys Toys: Representations
of Technological and Family Change, 1900-1940"
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Steven M. Gelber (Santa Clara University), "More Power: Men and Tools
in the Domestic Context"
4:30-6:00 RECEPTION
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