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Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 7 Jun 2023 04:38:22
Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

Serena Dyer, "Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century"
English | ISBN: 1350126969 | 2021 | 272 pages | PDF | 32 MB

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.

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