Judy Attfield

Judy Attfield was a designer and a teacher and writer in design history and material culture. In addition to Wild Things (2000), she co-edited, with Tag Gronberg, Women Working in Design : a resource book (1986); made a seminal feminist contribution to John A Walker's Design History and the History of Design (1986); co-edited with Pat Kirkham, A View from the Interior: Feminism, Women and Design (1989); co-wrote with Pat Kirkham the introductory essay and contributed to The Gendered Object ...See more

Judy Attfield was a designer and a teacher and writer in design history and material culture. In addition to Wild Things (2000), she co-edited, with Tag Gronberg, Women Working in Design : a resource book (1986); made a seminal feminist contribution to John A Walker's Design History and the History of Design (1986); co-edited with Pat Kirkham, A View from the Interior: Feminism, Women and Design (1989); co-wrote with Pat Kirkham the introductory essay and contributed to The Gendered Object (1996: ed. Kirkham); edited the anthology Utility Reassessed: The Role of Ethics in the Practice of Design (1999) and prepared a collection of her writings and articles, Bringing Modernity Home: Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture (2007) . Judy Attfield died in 2006. See less