Gender and Material Culture in Britain Since 1600

by Greig, Hannah; Hamlett, Jane; Hannan, Leonie

• ISBN13: 9781137340641
• ISBN10: 1137340649
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-11-17
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

What 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.

Author Biography

Hannah Greig is Senior Lecturer in History and a member of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York, UK.

Jane Hamlett is Reader in Modern British History at Royal Holloway University of London, UK, where she is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture.

Leonie Hannan is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 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
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