Women and material culture, 1660-1830
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Women and material culture, 1660-1830
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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  Gunma
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  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
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  Switzerland
  France
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book comprises twelve illustrated, interdisciplinary essays on gender and material culture across the eighteenth century. These essays point to the many ways in which gender mediated and was shaped by the consumption and production of goods and elucidate the complex relationships between material and social practice in the period.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction
- J .Batchelor & C.Kaplan SECTION I: DRESS AND ADORNMENT Women and their Jewels
- M.Pointon Fanny's Pockets: Cotton, Consumption and Domestic Economy, 1780-1850
- B.Burman & J.White 'Changing her gown and setting her head to rights': New Shops, New Hats, and New Identities
- J.Heydt-Stevenson SECTION II: WOMEN AND SCULPTURE Sculpting in Tiaras: Grand Duchess Maria Federovna as a Producer and Consumer of the Arts
- R.P.Blakesley Pride and Prejudice: Eighteenth-Century Women Sculptors and their Material Practices
- M.Sterckx A Female Sculptor and Connoisseur: Artistic Self-Fashioning and the Exposure of Connoisseurship, Collecting and Concupiscence
- A.Escott SECTION III: THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF EMPIRE 'The Taste for Bringing the Outside In': Nationalism, Gender and Landscape Wallpaper (1700-1825)
- E.K.Johnson Taihu Tatlers: Aesthetic Translation in the China Trade
- D.L.Porter White Slavery: Hannah More, Women and Fashion
- E.K.Wallace SECTION IV: WOMEN AND BOOKS Reinstating 'The Pamela Vogue'
- J.Batchelor The Book as Cosmopolitan Object: Women's Publishing, Collecting, and Anglo-German Exchange
- A.Johns 'Books Without Which I Cannot Write': How did Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Get the Books they Read?
- S.Staves Select Bibliography Index
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