{"id":927,"date":"2008-05-16T02:51:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T07:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=927"},"modified":"2010-11-23T22:51:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T03:51:31","slug":"degendering-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/16\/degendering-the-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Degendering the Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/gender-marriagefamily-pyrex-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/umich.edu\/~sapac\/sia\/2008\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">University of Michigan Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center <\/a>gives <a href=\"http:\/\/umich.edu\/~sapac\/sia\/2008\/Pyrex.html\" target=\"_blank\">a thumbs up to these ads<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pyrex kitchen cookware<\/a> for using androgynous figures instead of women.\u00a0 Doing so suggests that\u00a0<em>people<\/em> use kitchens, not just <em>women<\/em>.\u00a0 Contrast it to, well, as far as I can remember, just about every other ad for every other kitchen product that I&#8217;ve ever seen (for examples, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/28\/gee-thanks-kentucky-fried-chicken\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/commercial-montage-on-cooking-and.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/home-made-simple-squad-women-take-joy.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/gendering-homes.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/if-only-women-spent-less-time-cooking.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/gender-marriagefamily-pyrex-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-929 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/gender-marriagefamily-pyrex-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-928 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/gender-marriagefamily-pyrex-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Laura L. for the tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Michigan Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center gives a thumbs up to these ads for Pyrex kitchen cookware for using androgynous figures instead of women.\u00a0 Doing so suggests that\u00a0people use kitchens, not just women.\u00a0 Contrast it to, well, as far as I can remember, just about every other ad for every other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2088,272,293],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-marriagefamily","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29388,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/29388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}