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In 1914, James Smart Manufacturing Company advertised the sale of two technologically identical, yet stylistically different irons: one had a black painted finish, the other, a nickel plated finish. Both styles operated in the same fashion, producing a comparable final product, however the latter was a new addition to the catalogue and was set at a higher price. The similar functionality of these domestic tools suggests that this stylistic change was made on behalf of clients' preference and taste, rather than quality of work. By employing an object based analysis to the iron, this paper will illustrate the reciprocal relationship between gender and technology and engage with the growing discourse surrounding the changes in domestic space from 1880 to 1920 in Canada.
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The intention of the author of this article is to worry away at the limits of the concept of intangible culture. In pursuing this line of critique, he wonders how an international organization such as UNESCO, which is not only composed of nation-states but depends on their cooperation to get its work done, can address the status of cultural practices that are central to national self-recognition but that these nation-states do not want to admit to each other. These are the practices that he associates with the concept of “cultural intimacy” – the “dirty laundry” that every nation-state confronts, denies, and yet, for the most part, guiltily enjoys. The space of cultural intimacy includes all those aspects of cultural and social life that are locally recognized but externally suppressed. In virtually every country, there are deeply embedded and widely popular practices that do not seem to conform to a largely Western-inspired and globally dominant canon of respectability. These practices arguably represent the most intractable challenge to formal, state-led representations of culture.
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While home should represent trust and safety, from one day to the next it can become a major source of insecurity by becoming a site of daily harassment and violence. How can we conceptualize such violence? This paper presents a literature review of sexual harassment in housing that is perpetrated by people in positions of power such as landlords, building managers and superintendents. Although this issue affects many women around the world, it remains under documented in comparison to other forms of sexual harassment and violence.
Keywords: harcèlement, violences basées sur le genre, discrimination, logement, recension des écrits, harassment, gender-based violence, discrimination, housing, literature review