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

Material Religion

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 14-33

  Guthrie, Stewart ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising; Animism; Anthropomorphism; Gendered objects; Goffman; Theory of religion

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049270312     PISSN: 17432200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/174322007780095799     Document Type: Article

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