Subject: Re: gender: introduction to not much
From: David DeMumbrum (hello@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 15 1999 - 04:04:54 CDT
Leah,
I carry a purse. It's called my backpack. It's got everything:
Swiss Army Knife, computer disks, toothbrush...even deodorant.
-David
Leah Giblin wrote:
>Lately, I have also
been thinking about purses. Are they oppressive or useful to women?
Are
they just another capitalistic device to encourage shopping in women?
Why
are men kept from carrying purses, and is this actually changing through
recent fashion developments (fanny-packs excluded)? Okay, so maybe
analyzing the role of the purse in modern society isn't exactly
revolutionary, but it can still be interesting to consider the gender
constructs that envelope even this substitution for pockets.
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