Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines how model houses affect perceptions of gender roles and family life, uncovering the cultural meanings implicit in toys related to a single building type, the family home.
Part of a series that includes Buildings in Boxes: Architectural Toys from the CCA, Toys that Teach, Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection, Toys and the Modernist Tradition, Toy Town and Cities in Motion: Toys and Transport.
Alice T. Friedman
Graphic design by Glenn Goluska
Published in French as Maisons de rêve, maisons jouets
Softcover, 47 pages
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