Material lives : women makers and consumer culture in the 18th century

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    • Dyer, Serena

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Material lives : women makers and consumer culture in the 18th century

Serena Dyer

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

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Material lives : women makers and consumer culture in the eighteenth century

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index

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内容説明

Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women’s material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century production and consumption. Genteel women’s making has traditionally been seen as decorative, trivial and superficial. Yet their material archives, forged through fabric samples, watercolours, dressed prints and dolls’ garments, reveal how women used the material culture of making to record and navigate their lives. Material Lives positions women as ‘makers’ in a consumer society. Through fragments of fabric and paper, Dyer explores an innovative way of accessing the lives of otherwise obscured women. For researchers and students of material culture, dress history, consumption, gender and women’s history, it offers a rich resource to illuminate the power of needles, paintbrushes and scissors.

目次

List of Illustrations List of Charts and Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Making Material Lives Material Life Writing The Consumer Culture of Making Four Material Lives 2. Material Accounting: A Sartorial Account Book Barbara Johnson (1738–1825) Educating Barbara Johnson Accounting for Herself Material Literacy A Chronicle of Fashion 3. Dress of the Year: Watercolours Ann Frankland Lewis (1757–1842) Sartorial Timekeeping and the Fashion Plate Accomplishment and Creative Practice Society and Fashionable Display Selfhood, Emotion and the Mourning Watercolours 4. Adorned in Silk: Dressed Prints Sabine Winn (1734–1798) Paper Textiles, Dress and the Dressed Print Sabine Winn’s Dressed Prints Print and Making at Nostell 5. Fashions in Miniature: Dolls Laetitia Powell (1741–1801) The Powell Dolls Mimetic Dolls and Miniature Selves Dolls as Sartorial Social Narrators 6. Conclusion: Material Afterlives Glossary Bibliography Index

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