Download or read book The Sex of Things written by Victoria de Grazia and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-08-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rare pleasure. Rooting gender and consumption in the actions of people making their own history, these brilliant essays move from nineteenth-century pinups to the formation of gendered modernity. Once you've savored this volume, you'll never think of modern life in the same way again."—Temma Kaplan, author of Red City, Blue Period