Gendering Space and Eroticizing Domesticity

The reference Mackintosh's mirror makes to the female figure described by Brett is subtle. If you look hard you will see it.
When thinking about the division of labour along gender lines (ie. Royal Doulton Potteries, ideas of Ruskin and Morris) with women being responsible for the tone and decoration of the home, I find this mirror a very peculiar object. Brett opens his article saying that a "man standing before this piece of bedroom furniture sees himself enclosed within an unmistakably female space." (p.6)

This sentiment of spaces having genders, or being gendered is an old one that has been subject to debate over time.
That Mackintosh deliberately treats this private (read: female) space differently than his public (read: male) works (example at right-Queens Cross Church) seems to subvert traditional modes of viewing the private space as female by sexualizing the space and gendering the object. Is this a conscious critique of the hierarchy of gender? Does it contribute to the anti-feminism Silverman associates with Art Nouveau? Or is this design oppositional as Brett suggests with its' "eroticized privacy?"(p.11)

Does a man, standing in front of this mirror, see himself as spectacle framed by the female gaze? And does a woman see herself measured against an ideal vision of the feminine? Mirrors occupy a liminal reality by containing "the possibility of both representation and emptiness."(p.12) Is this the personal is political before it's time? These ideas and questions imbue the design of Mackintosh's mirror with multiple readings, some of which, like the domestic space it occupies, are fantasy.
In an era where stay-at-home dads are becoming more common does the fetishization of the domestic space - and by extension the commodity, apply in the same way as it did a century ago?

Stylistically, where would you say this design is situated? Brett argues that Mackintosh's is a modern design on the grounds of content or meaning. Do you agree that content can align an object with a movement or style? When looking at this interior through the lens of Le Corbusier, who declared modern design as "neat and clean, pure and healthy" (The Decorative Art of Today) aesthetically Mackintosh's interior meets the demands of Modern Design, but in it's erotic contradiction of the domestic ideal it was seen as "'unhealthy,' 'revolting,' and 'diseased'" (p.12) by his contemporaries making it difficult to read as Modern in the moralistic sense of Le Corbusier.