{"product_id":"gender-and-material-culture-in-britain-since-1600-9781137340641","title":"Gender and Material Culture in Britain since 1600","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does material culture tell us about gendered identities and how does gender reveal the meaning of spaces and things? This edited collection looks at the adornment of the body, dress and material cultures of the home and public spaces to demonstrate how people in Britain have presented themselves as gendered beings from 1600 through to today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Why are pens seldom gendered while shoes are? Why should girls play with dolls and not boys? Gender and Material Culture is a unique contribution to what has been defined as a material turn in history, covering hitherto unexplored areas of the complex relationship between gender and material things in Britain since the seventeenth century.' - Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Gender and Material Culture  1. Gender and Material Culture in the Early Modern London Guilds  2. Women's Letters: Eighteenth-Century Letter-Writing and the Life of the Mind  3. Men's Hair: Managing Appearances in the Long Eighteenth Century  4. Craftsmen in Common: Objects, Skills and Masculinity in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries  5. Stitching Women: Unpicking Histories of Victorian Clothes  6. Grooming Men: The Material World of the Nineteenth-Century Barbershop  7. Queer Things: Men and Make-Up between the Wars  8. Manly Drinkers: Masculinity and Material Culture in the Interwar Public House  Concluding Remarks  Resources  Key Texts.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA 3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863120970071,"sku":"9781137340641","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781137340641.jpg?v=1759919695","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gender-and-material-culture-in-britain-since-1600-9781137340641","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}