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Women and Things, 1750-1950 - Gendered Material Strategies (Paperback)
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Women and Things, 1750-1950 - Gendered Material Strategies (Paperback)
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In contrast to much current scholarship on women and material
culture which focuses primarily on women as consumers, this essay
collection provides case studies of women who produced material
objects. The essays collected here make an original contribution to
material culture studies by focusing on women's social practices in
relation to material culture. The essays as a whole are concerned
with women's complex and active engagement with material culture in
the various stages of the material object's life cycle, from design
and production to consumption, use, and redeployment. Also,
theorized and described are the ways in which women engaged in
meaning making, identity formation, and commemoration through their
manipulation of materials and techniques, ranging from taxidermy
and shell work to collecting autographs and making scrapbooks. This
volume takes as its object of investigation the overlooked and
often despised categories of women's decorative and craft
activities as sites of important cultural and social work. This
volume is interdisciplinary with essays by art historians, social
historians, literary critics, rhetoricians, and museum curators.
The scope of the volume is international with essays on
eighteenth-century German silhouettes, Australian aboriginal ritual
practices, Brittany mourning rites, and Soviet-era recipes that
provide a comparative framework for the majority of essays which
focus on British and North American women who lived and worked in
the long nineteenth century. This volume will appeal to a broad
range of students and scholars in women's history, art history,
cultural studies, museum studies, anthropology, cultural and social
history, literature, rhetoric, and material culture studies.
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