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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Chasin, Alexandra. "All Other Things Being Equal: Studies in U.S.-American Material Culture," Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, September 1993.
This dissertation inquires into the social role of objects in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. culture. Proceeding through a series of case studies—including Winchester rifles, Warhols Brillo Boxes, Automated Teller Machines, and General Electric’s household appliances—the dissertation argues that objects mediate social relations by situating the negotiations of class, race, gender, sexual, and national identities. It argues, further, that objects participate in those negotiations, that objects are more active than is allowed within a traditional Western schema of hierarchical binarisms. The method is interdisciplinary, drawing on literary studies, art history, history of technology, and sociology.
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