Bottles are men, glasses are women: religion, gender, and secular objects

Representations of objects as gendered appear cross-culturally and include a range of artefacts and natural phenomena, secular as well as religious. Such attribution of gender is one aspect of a broader attribution of human features, including agency, to many of these phenomena. Most broadly, for ex...

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Main Author: Guthrie, Stewart E. 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2007]
In: Material religion
Year: 2007, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 14-33
Further subjects:B Goffman
B theory of religion
B Animism
B gendered objects
B Advertising
B Anthropomorphism
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)