Pink, gender, and automobile

Rose, genre et automobile

Kévin Bideaux () and Guillaume Lebègue ()
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Kévin Bideaux: LEGS - Laboratoire d'Etudes de Genre et de Sexualité - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Guillaume Lebègue: Université de Lille

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Abstract: Cars are strongly associated with the masculine, while the pink colour is associated with the feminine. By combining these two elements, pink cars articulate differently with gender ideologies, depending on whether they belong to men or women, depending on whether they are shown with men or with women. The gender relations signified by the pink cars must indeed be thought of in their intersectionality with other tie-ins and especially class relations. Through the analysis of several pink car models and different employment contexts, this is to show how the colour and design of an object also articulate with gender.

Keywords: Colour design; history of colours; gender stereotypes; gender marketing; Gender studies; Car / design; pink; stéréotypes de genre; études de genre; Voitures; rose (couleur); Couleurs; Design; marketing; Marketing genré (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-05-23
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Published in Belgium Colour Symposium 2019, May 2019, Gand (KU Leuven Ghent Technology Campus), Belgium.

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