Gender, color, and the domestic sphere in Western Australia 1890-1914

Priya Metcalfe

doi:10.1117/12.464563

6 June 2002 Gender, color, and the domestic sphere in Western Australia 1890-1914

Priya Metcalfe

Proceedings Volume 4421, 9th Congress of the International Colour Association; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.464563
Event: 9th Congress of the International Color Association, 2001, Rochester, NY, United States

Abstract

When Australia was first colonized by immigrants from Britain in May 1829 they brought with them the social and cultural conditioning that was their heritage in the Northern Hemisphere. This included entrenched attitudes about what was deemed to be appropriate behavior, which depended on age, class, wealth, martial status and gender. In post Industrial Revolution England there was an inherent conflict between the capitalist industrialized world of manufacture, and the domestic realm, which was perceived to be a moral and spiritual refuge from work. A solution to this dichotomy was to separate the two, with the industrialized world seen as the male domain and the domestic sphere seen as the female realm. Within the walls of the home, though, spaces were also allocated a gender depending on their function, and this was reinforced through the use of applied color to the domestic interior.

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Priya Metcalfe "Gender, color, and the domestic sphere in Western Australia 1890-1914", Proc. SPIE 4421, 9th Congress of the International Colour Association, (6 June 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.464563

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