Reframing the scholarship on women and material culture, this volume explores how women from widely different times and places made meaning, and formed identiti
In contrast to much current scholarship on women and material culture which focuses primarily on women as consumers, this essay collection provides case studies
Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the i
In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not b
Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offer